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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.

For Spicer, the correspondence—Yeats and Eliot included. The forever uncomfortable dialogue, occurring on the page, is both the instance of the occurrence and a chronicle of the occur- rence of the serial poem. The 49th poem might have been the last poem of The Holy Gail, but in it are instructions to guide later poets. They are tangled with what came before, with themselves, with what came after, and with what is yet to come.

NOTES 1. Spicer, Spicer, 7. Spicer, 6—7. The Collected Books of Jack Spicer, ed. Spicer, 4. Spicer, 5. Anne Olivier Bell, vol. Yeats, ed. Albright, Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence, 2nd ed.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, , Bloom, Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence, Yet even here, even if Lorca was on the other end of the line, Spicer influenced the poem from the other. Spicer, 54— Joseph M. Conte, Riley, Cabell, Jurgen, Cabell, Carl G.

Holt, Greene, Clifford D. Eliot, Eliot, The Waste Land, 1st ed. Lawrence S. Rainey Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, , Quintin Hoare London: Verso, , Moretti, Duncan, Towards a New American Poetics, In legend, Gawain often encounters the sick king and attempts to cure him. This attempt, again and again, is unsuccessful. Once, while seated beside the Fisher King, Gawain fell asleep. Nigel Bryant, trans. Brewer, , In another version, he gazed at a vision on the ceiling. In both instances, he missed his chance to restore the king to health.

This failing pained him; he wished to heal, but when the time came, he seemed to forget how. The King is sick, so he is physically riddled. The poem is communicating to us in and about its struggle to speak in its own creation. The riddle is the poem as well as instructions for the compo- sition of the poem.

The writing and reading of the serial poem is not easy. See Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. His first mention is in The Vulgate Cycle, and the author of this text is unknown. The only solution that remained was the creation of a completely new person- age, worthy in every way of the role he was destined from birth, one might almost say from all eternity, to fill. Matarasso, Eliot, The Waste Land, l. Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Woolf, — Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry Winner of the American Book Award In , when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and Download ».

Get BOOK. Skip to content Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry Winner of the American Book Award In , when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and My Vocabulary Did This to Me.