false<![CDATA[My Vocabulary Did This to Me]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1210814332m/3309420.jpg33094201In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and ’60s, though in many ways Spicer’s innovative writing ran counter to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West Coast Beat movement. Now, more than forty years later, Spicer’s voice is more compelling, insistent, and timely than ever. During his short but prolific life, Spicer troubled the concepts of translation, voice, and the act of poetic composition itself. My Vocabulary Did This to Me is a landmark publication of this essential poet’s life work, and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find and many published here for the first time.334663630112008My Vocabulary Did This to Metotal:127|5:99|4:21|3:5|2:2|1:0|1275982863053falsefalseWed Apr 22 00:03:32 -0700 2009Wed Apr 22 00:12:13 -0700 2009 Anyway, FOR CRIPES SAKE, if you're reading this and have never heard of Jack Spicer before, I wish I was YOU. Meaning I wish I could read these poems all over again like a pretty young virgin. I would LOVE to be Spicer...more...]]>
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The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer
Edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
(Wesleyan)
I am just finishing the “must read” poetry volume of the year, “My Vocabulary Did this To Me”, an anticipated republication of the poems by the late Ja...more...]]>
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all, but largely) about how annoying it is to write, how the words are mortal enemies sometimes, and how it never works out like you plan. About the irritating beauty in it.
I wish I could talk to Spicer, for ten minutes. Or more accurately, com...more...]]>
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disliked much
much "not for me" but still B- refreshing
love how he handles lines a lot of the time]]>
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His work is beautiful - much better, accessible, real, ... than almost all of his contemporaries.
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and loss-driven as any great poet's, but his interior patterning-- his dream-
language-- was morphemes and phonemes, rather than stone and river. He found
by pure feel what language poets and ethnop...more...]]>
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Dillinger and The Grail.]]>
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