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The first full critical study of this San Francisco Renaissance poet In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually come to be recognized as one of most intriguing of the so-called 'New American Poetry' poets. This study places Spicer's work in the context of the San Francisco Renaissance and contemporary movements with which he was in dialogue such as the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the 'New York School'. It also explores his relationship to the major modernists from whom his innovative poetics derived. Informed by archival material only recently made available, the book examines Spicer's post-Poundian translation projects, his crucial theories of the 'serial poem' and inspiration as 'dictation', his contrarian take on queer poetics, his insistently uncanny regionalism, and his elaboration of an epistolary poetics of interpellation and address. Daniel Katz is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett and American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation.

Note biographique

Daniel Katz is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett, American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation, and The Poetry of Jack Spicer.

Table des matières

Introduction - "All is Not Well"; Chapter One - The Early Poetry: Cartography, Seriality, Time; Chapter Two - Correspondence and Admonition; Chapter Three - The Metasexual City: Politics, Nonsense, Poetry; Chapter Four - From Mythopoetics to Pragmatics: The Holy Grail and A Red Wheelbarrow; Chapter Five - The Poetry of Language and the Language of Poetry: Language and Book of Magazine Verse; Coda: 1958; Bibliography.

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