
The House That Jack Built (New Edition)
The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
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The House That Jack Built (New Edition)
The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
About this book
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. 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. 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.
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 book delivers a firsthand account of the contrary and turbulent poetics that define Spicer's ongoing contribution to an international avant-garde.
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Table of contents
- CoverÂ
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- ContentsÂ
- Preface: Acknowledgments
- Key to Abbreviations
- Introduction
- VANCOUVER, LECTURE I: Dictation and âA Textbook of Poetryâ
- VANCOUVER, LECTURE II: The Serial Poem and The Holy Grail
- VANCOUVER, LECTURE III: Poetry in Process and Book of Magazine Verse
- CALIFORNIA, LECTURE IV: Poetry and Politics
- AFTERWORD (1998) by Peter Gizzi
- APPENDIX
- Uncollected Prose and a Final Interview
- Bibliography and Works Cited
- Index