1998, ISBN: 9780819553089

Jack Spicer, unlike his contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder, was a poet who disdained publishing and relished his role as a social outcast. He died in 1965 virtua… Mehr…

Jack Spicer, unlike his contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder, was a poet who disdained publishing and relished his role as a social outcast. He died in 1965 virtually unrecognized, yet in the following years his work and thought have attracted and intrigued an international audience. Now this comprehensive biography gives a pivotal poet his due. Based on interviews with scores of Spicers contemporaries, Poet Be Like God details the most intimate aspects of Spicers life-his family, his friends, his lovers-illuminating not only the man but also many of his poems. Such illumination extends also to the works of others whom Spicer came to know, including the writers Frank OHara, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Helen Adam, Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, Philip K. Dick, Richard Brautigan, and Marianne Moore and the painters Jess, Fran Herndon, and Jay DeFeo. The resulting narrative, an engaging chronicle of the San Francisco Renaissance and the emergence of the North Beach gay scene during the 50s and 60s, will be indispensable reading for students of American literature and gay studies., Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Edition Description: 1st, Publication Date: 1998, Language: English, Publication Year: 1998, Country of Origin: USA, United States, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Cms: 5.98X1.19X9.02, ISBN-10: 0819553085, ISBN-13: 9780819553089, SKU: SONG0819553085, EAN: 9780819553089, Format: Gebundene Ausgabe, Anzahl der Seiten: 468 Seiten, Sprache: Englisch, Buchtitel: Poet Be Like God, Wesleyan University Press, 1998<