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Author: Michael Davidson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-06-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521423045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe San Francisco Renaissance is the first review of this major American literary movement.
Author: Lewis Ellingham
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1998-07-29
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780819553089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first biography of poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965), a key figure in San Francisco’s gay cultural scene and in the development of American avant garde poetries.
Author: Donald Allen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780520209534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Donald Allen's prophetic anthology had an electrifying effect on two generations, at least, of American poets and readers. More than the repetition of familiar names and ideas that most anthologies seem to be about, here was the declaration of a collective, intelligent, and thoroughly visionary work-in-progress: the primary example for its time of the anthology-as-manifesto. Its republication today--complete with poems, statements on poetics, and autobiographical projections--provides us, again, with a model of how a contemporary anthology can and should be shaped. In these essentials it remains as fresh and useful a guide as it was in 1960."--Jerome Rothenberg, editor of Poems for the Millennium "The New American Poetry is a crucial cultural document, central to defining the poetics and the broader cultural dynamics of a particular historical moment."--Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry
Author: David Meltzer
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2001-05
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780872863798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah, and the Internet."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
Author: Bob Kaufman
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 1
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bill Mohr
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011-11-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1609380738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the evolution of contemporary American poetry in Los Angeles, California.
Author: Jack Spicer
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2021-09-24
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0819578169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBe 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. Most 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. In writings that range in date from his first days in Berkeley in 1945 through to the final months of his life, 20 years later, one sees the full development of Spicer as a writer, in a volume that complements and completes the award-winning My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer. Readers familiar with Spicer will find countless lines, rhythms, and thoughts that cast new light on old favorites, while the plays reveal a different side of his dialectical and dialogic approach to writing. 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.
Author: Donna DiGiuseppe
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780866988216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The remarkable story of the Renaissance's most successful female artist, a talented woman who defied the conventions of her times"--
Author: Michael McClure
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jack Spicer
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1681375427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOut of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico García Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work. Jack Spicer was one of the outstanding figures of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Renaissance, bent on fashioning a visionary new lyricism. Spicer called his poems “dictations,” and they combine outrageous humor, acid intelligence, brilliant wordplay, and sheer desolation to incandescent effect. “Frankly I was quite surprised when Mr. Spicer asked me to write an introduction to this volume,” writes the dead Federico García Lorca at the start of After Lorca, Spicer’s first book and one that, since it originally appeared in 1957, has exerted a powerful influence on poetry in America and abroad. “It must be made clear at the start that these poems are not translations,” Lorca continues. “In even the most literal of them Mr. Spicer seems to derive pleasure in inserting or substituting one or two words which completely change the mood and often the meaning of the poem as I had written it. More often he takes one of my poems and adjoins to half of it another of his own, giving rather the effect of an unwilling centaur. (Modesty forbids me to speculate which end of the animal is mine.) Finally there are an almost equal number of poems that I did not write at all (one supposes that they must be his).” What so puzzles Lorca continues to delight and inspire readers of poetry today.
