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Jack Spicer

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Born: January 29 1925

Died: 1616 08 19651965

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Jack Spicer was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry.

Spicer was born in Los Angeles, where he later graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942, and attended the University of Redlands from 1943-45. He spent most of his writing-life in San Francisco and spent the years 1945 to 1950 and 1952 to 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began writing, doing work as a research-linguist, and publishing some poetry . During this time he searched out fellow poets, but it was through his alliance with Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser that Spicer forged a new kind of poetry, and together they referred to their common work as the Berkeley Renaissance. The three, who were all gay, also educated younger poets in their circle about their "queer genealogy", Rimbaud, Lorca, and other gay writers.[1] Spicer's poetry of this period is collected in One Night Stand and Other Poems . His Imaginary Elegies, later collected in Donald Allen's The New American Poetry 1945-1960 anthology, were written around this time.

In 1954, he co-founded the Six Gallery in San Francisco, which soon became famous as the scene of the October 1955 Six Gallery reading that launched the West Coast Beat movement.

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Jack Spicer

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Books from Jack Spicer

Billy the kid y otros poemas

Billy the Kid

Drug Law Enforcement, Policing and Harm Reduction: Ending the Stalemate (Routledge Studies in Policing and Society)

Admonitions

After Lorca

The Red Wheelbarrow

Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

The Tower of Babel

Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer

Fifteen False Propositions About God

The Holy Grail

The Collected Books

The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures

Hokku Notebook

Un libro de música

Un libro de música

After Lorca

Citroenen, gedichten en zeewier

Ceci (n’)est (pas) l’Amérique, (n’)est (pas) la politique de l’auteur 6

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