The house that Jack built : the collected lectures of Jack Spicer /

Within THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT resides in one volume 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spicer, Jack
Other Authors: Gizzi, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : Published by University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press, [1998], ©1998
Hanover, NH : c1998
Hanover, NH : [1998]
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Table of Contents:
  • Vancouver Lecture 1: Dictation and "A Textbook of Poetry"
  • Vancouver Lecture 2: The Serial Poem and The Holy Grail
  • Vancouver Lecture 3: Poetry in Process and Book of Magazine Verse
  • California Lecture: Poetry and Politics
  • Afterword: Jack Spicer and the Practice of Reading
  • Appendix Uncollected Prose and Final Interview.