Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History &amp; Criticism. Poetics. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. Featuring Diane di Prima, Robert Duncan, Margaret Randall, Muriel Rukeyser, and Jack Spicer. Edited by David Hadbawnk and Sean Reynolds, erica kaufman, Meira Levinson, Bradley Lubin, Megan Paslawski, Kyle Waugh, Rachael Wilson, Ana Božičević, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, and Margaret Randall, with General Editor Ammiel Alcalay. LOST &amp; FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE publishes unexpected, genre-bending works by important 20th century writers. Unearthed from personal and institutional archives in the United States and abroad, these materials are edited by doctoral students at the Graduate Center, CUNY. SERIES II is a collection of 6 chapbooks featuring Diane di Prima's Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H.D. and R.D.'S H.D. (on Robert Duncan); a transcription of Robert Duncan's Charles Olson Memorial Lecture; selections from the Mexico City-based literary magazine El Corno Emplumado [The Plumed Horn] by Margaret Randall; Selections from Muriel Rukeyser's Spanish Civil War Archive; and Jack Spicer's Beowulf. Edited, annotated, and with accompanying essays, The London Review of Books calls this "a serious and worthy enterprise." Diane di Prima calls the series "a gold mine" and Joanne Kyger writes: "What a brilliant cast of characters. Just exactly what one (myself) would like to read." SERIES II includes: Jack Spicer's Beowulf: Selections (Parts I &amp; II) (David Hadbawnk and Sean Reynolds, editors) Robert Duncan: Charles Olson Memorial Lecture (erica kaufman, Meira Levinson, Bradley Lubin, Megan Paslawski, Kyle Waugh, Rachael Wilson, and Ammiel Alcalay, editors) Diane di Prima: The Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H.D. (Ana Božičević, editor) Diane di Prima: R.D.'s H.D. (Ammiel Alcalay, editor) Barcelona, 1936: Selections from Muriel Rukeyser's Spanish Civil War Archive (Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, editor) Margaret Randall: Selections from El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn (Margaret Randall, editor)

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series II

Literature & Fiction

Randall, Margaret

Duncan, Robert

SPICER, Jack

DiPrima, Diane

RUKEYSER, Muriel

United States

The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY

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

History & Criticism

Wesleyan University Press

Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer

Essays & Correspondence

The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer

Illuminates Jack Spicer's provocative lectures on radical poetics.

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.

Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009) Winner of the American Book Award (2009) In 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.

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Poetry

Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009) Winner of the American Book Award (2009) In 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.

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

Wesleyan

Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display. Much of the poetry here has never before been published, but the volume also includes much out-of-print or hard to find work, as well as Spicer's three major plays, which have never been collected. Here one finds major unfinished projects, early and alternate versions of well-known Spicer poems, shimmering stand-alone lyrics, and intricate extended "books" and serial poems. This new cache of Spicer material will be indispensable for any student of 20th century American poetry, proffering a trove of primary material for Spicer's growing readership to savor and enjoy. "When your body brushed against me. . ." When your body brushed against me I remembered How we used to catch butterflies in our hands Down in the garden. We were such patient children Following them from flower to flower Waiting and hoping. With our cupped hands we used to catch them And they answered us with a soft tickle For they never stopped flying. In bed I remembered them and cried for The touch of their fast wings, the impatience Of their bright colors I am too old for such games But even tonight, now your body has reminded me of butterflies I lie here awake, pretending.

w/Blaser's essay "The Practice of Outside"

The Collected Books of Jack Spicer

Black Sparrow Press

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Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series II

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

Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer

The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer

The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

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

The Collected Books of Jack Spicer