| Description |
1 online resource (xl, 351 pages) |
| Series |
Wesleyan poetry |
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The collected works of Jack Spicer ; volume 2 |
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Wesleyan poetry.
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| Contents |
The Poems. Beginnings: Collected Poems 1945-1946 -- To Josephine Miles -- "Within the world of little shapes and sounds . . ." -- The Bridge Game -- "After the ocean, shattering with equinox . . ." -- At Slim Gordon's -- "Among the coffee cups and soup tureens walked beauty . . ." -- The Chess Game -- 4 A.M. -- Berkeley Spring -- Ash Wednesday -- Palm Sunday -- To the Semanticists -- Karma -- Chinoiserie -- A Poem for a Restless Night -- "I saw a thunder- blossomed tree . . ." -- Berkeley Summer -- Berkeley in a Time of Plague -- A Girl's Song -- "A green wind rose in cones and shook our town . . ." -- "The unrejected bronze lies slowly in my hall . . ." -- "I do not see the morning traveller . . ." -- A New Testament -- "The long wind drives the rain around me now . . ." -- Early Poems: Los Angeles, Berkeley, Minneapolis, San Francisco -- "We bring these slender cylinders of song . . ." -- "There is an inner nervousness in virgins . . ." -- Hospital Scenes I: Penicillin -- Hospital Scenes II: Evening Visitors -- An Arcadia for Dick Brown -- Mr. J. Josephson, on a Friday Afternoon -- Ars Poetica -- "Come watch the love balloon . . ." -- The Bridge Game -- "Hereafter . . ." -- "There is a road somewhere . . ." -- Riddle No. 1 -- Riddle No. 2 -- "The avenues of flame . . ." -- Eucalyptus Leaves -- "A pulse, a quiet lengthening of breath . . ." -- A Poem for Nine Hours -- "The screamless voice . . ." -- The Inheritance: Palm Sunday -- A Heron for Mrs. Altrocchi -- Re A Poem for Josephine Miles -- Breakfast / Realestate / Busfare -- Orgy, Porgy, Pumpernickel, and Pie -- Wham, Bam, . . . . -- "We who have wept at the shrine of the bloodless Apollo . . ." -- "And every boy and girl has a lover . . ." -- "Capone in the springtime . . ." -- "If I could hear some whisperings . . ." -- "If autumn was a time for love . . ." -- "This angry maze of bone and blood . . ." -- A Night in Four Parts -- "The sea is a mirror . . ." -- Nunc, In Pulvere Dormio -- "The world I felt this winter . . ." -- "Look / The king is on the stage" -- "This is June . . ." -- "Flesh fails like words . . ." -- "It was so cold a night . . ." -- At a Party -- Remembering You, I Leave the Music of the Inner Room -- "The forward wept . . ." -- On Falling into Your Eyes -- Lost Ulysses -- "The old moon is still rolling . . ." -- "You are made out of porcelain and black ink . . ." -- "Songs From An Enormous Birdcage . . ." -- To a Certain Painter -- "I wonder where Orpheus has been . . ." -- "We were talking . . ." -- "The laughing lady . . ." -- "We are too tired to live like lions . . ." -- "Whenever I love . . ." -- "The new Aeneas . . ." -- "At the sound of Apollo . . ." -- "You thought . . ." -- Dardenella -- A Translation of George's Translation of "Spleen" from "Les Fleurs du Mal" (Die Blumen Des Bösen) -- "When your body brushed against me . . ." -- Coffee- Time -- Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes -- The Trojan Wars Renewed: A Capitulation, or The Dunkiad -- The Panther - After Rilke -- All Hallows Eve -- Midnight at Bareass Beach -- "The audience was sad to see . . ." -- Christmas Eve: 1952 -- A Prayer for Pvt. Graham Mackintosh on Halloween -- Epiloque in Another Language -- "These woods, so fit for emperors . . ." -- "As if a Chinese vase . . ." -- Imaginary Elegies I-IV (Early Version) -- Manhattan and Boston: 1955-1956 -- Manhattan -- "White as southern blindness . . ." -- "When the moon comes out . . ." -- Central Park West -- "And no one is around to see my tears . . ." -- "Easy on squeezing . . ." -- Orpheus Was A Poet -- Hell -- The Waves -- "If I had invented homosexuality . . ." -- Translator -- "Goodnight. I want to kill myself . . ." -- San Francisco and Berkeley: 1956-1965 -- For Kids -- Sonnet Exercise -- Buster Keaton's Shadow -- "The boy . . ." -- "They are going on a journey . . ." -- "Hmm. Tahiti . . ." -- "I feel a black incubus . . ." -- "It was like making love to my shadow . . ." -- Romance Sonámbulo -- A Poem Against Dada & The White Rabbit -- The Clock Jungle -- "Ridiculous is a word . . ." -- "Hunters in the great Southwest . . ." -- For Bob -- For Tom -- For Jerry -- "An island / Is a herd of reindeer . . ." -- "And he said there are trails . . ." -- "Dear Russ . . ." -- Vistas: On Visiting Spinoza's Grave -- Lamp -- Carmen -- Opera -- Mazurka for the Girls Who Brought Me Tranquilizers -- The Birds -- Song For A Raincoat -- Birthday Pool -- Poet -- "Three little waves . . ." -- Hotel -- "No daring shadows . . ." -- The Pipe of Peace -- "Billy came into the bar . . ." -- "This poem has to do . . ." -- Hokkus -- "In- / Visible zombies . . ." -- "The skull is not the bones . . ." -- "Lack of Oxygen puzzles the air . . ." -- "Down to new beaches . . ." -- "The slobby sea . . ." -- Last Hokku -- Jacob -- "Mar - tar - dumbs - ville . . ." -- "At the back of the age . . ." -- "I make difficulties . . ." -- "A hokku is something . . ." -- "No one can rescue anyone from hell . . ." -- "In the smallest corner of words . . ." -- "What I miss . . ." -- "Get away zombie . . ." -- "Saying love . . ." -- "Extend it in words . . ." -- "Hell, / If you have a horror . . ." -- "No real resting place . . ." -- "You have to make moral decisions . . ." -- "A million carpenters . . ." -- "It is as if / Love had wings . . ." -- Hokku -- "It is impossible to stop . . ." -- Blood and Sand -- An Exercise -- For Major General Abner Doubleday Inventor of Baseball and First American President of the Theosophical Society -- "Daily waste washed by the tides . . ." -- Shark Island -- Stinson -- For B. W. -- For B. W. II -- For B. W. III -- "It's dark all night . . ." -- "Love has five muscles . . ." -- "Thank you all for your fine funeral . . ." -- "Jesus came to me in a dream . . ." -- "Orpheus / Purposes . . ." -- Against Corso -- Spider Music -- For Harris -- For Harris II -- Ch'ang Ch'eng -- "Be brave to things . . ." -- "With fifteen cents . . ." -- A New Poem (Texts and Fragments) -- The Plays -- Young Goodman Brown: A Morality Play -- Pentheus and the Dancers: An Adaptation -- Troilus |
| Summary |
"The previously uncollected poems and plays of a renowned poet of the San Francisco Renaissance"-- Provided by publisher |
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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. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 07, 2022) |
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Poetry.
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Drama.
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poetry.
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drama (literary genre)
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Poetry
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Drama
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poetry.
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Drama
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Drama.
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Poésie.
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Théâtre.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Katz, Daniel, editor, writer of introduction
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| LC no. |
2021033103 |
| ISBN |
9780819578167 |
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0819578169 |
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