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Poet Be Like God
Lewis Ellingham
Kevin Killian
其他書名
Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance
出版
Wesleyan University Press
, 1998-07-29
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Literary
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / LGBTQ
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies
ISBN
0819553085
9780819553089
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=40ObRvXwUCwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 Spicer's contemporaries, Poet Be Like God details the most intimate aspects of Spicer's 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 O'Hara, 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.