![]() These lectures, along with Gizzi's afterword, provide a vital articulation of the poet's profound and necessary calling." One may quarrel with many of Spicer's often provocative opinions but there is an urgency here, a life-force. "Here at last we have the poet Jack Spicer's legendary Vancouver and Berkeley lectures given during the turbulent 1960s, now lovingly and meticulously edited (one might say illuminated) by the poet Peter Gizzi. This book delivers a firsthand account of the contrary and turbulent poetics that define Spicer's ongoing contribution to an international avant-garde. Peter Gizzi's afterword elucidates some of the fundamental issues of Spicer's poetry and lectures, including the concept of poetic dictation, which Spicer renovates with vocabularies of popular culture: radio, Martians, and baseball his use of the California landscape as a backdrop for his poems and his visual imagination in relation to the aesthetics of west-coast funk assemblage. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has called "the practice of outside," is an authoritative edition of an underground classic. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. Illuminates Jack Spicer's provocative lectures on radical poetics
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