The Poetry of Jack Spicer / / Daniel Katz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Katz, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing, demanding, and rewarding of the so-called 'New American Poetry' poets who were first published in Donald Allen's historic anthology of that name.This is the first full-length critical monograph on his work, placing it in the context not only of the San Francisco Renaissance and contemporary movements with which Spicer dialogued and often disagreed - such as the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the 'New York School' - but also of the major modernists from whom his innovative poetics derived, differed, and developed.Informed by much archival material only recently made available, The Poetry of Jack Spicer examines Spicer's post-Poundian translation projects; his crucial theories of the 'serial poem' and inspiration as 'dictation'; his contrarian take on queer poetics; his insistently uncanny regionalism; and his elaboration of an epistolary poetics of interpellation and address.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: “All Is Not Well” -- 1. The Early Poetry: Cartography, Seriality, Time -- 2. Correspondence and Admonition -- 3. The Metasexual City: Politics, Nonsense, Poetry -- 4. From Mythopoetics to Pragmatics: The Holy Grail and A Red Wheelbarrow -- 5. The Poetry of Language and the Language of Poetry: Language and the Book of Magazine Verse -- Coda: 1958 -- Bibliography -- Index