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After Jack

After Jack

Morse, Garry Thomas

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Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 088922630X
ISBN13: 9780889226302
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: Jun 1 2010
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Jack Spicer, the barroom soothsayer of the Berkeley Renaissance, forged a new kind of poetry with Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser in the decade 1945-1955, grounded in their queer genealogy of Arthur Rimbaud, Federico García Lorca and other gay writers. Beginning his famous serial poem, After Lorca, in 1956, Spicer described it to Robin Blaser a year later:

I enclose my eight latest 'translations.' Transformations might be a better word. Several are originals and most of the rest change the poem vitally. I can't seem to make anybody understand this or what I'm doing. They look blank or ask what the spanish is for a word that isn't in the spanish or praise (like Duncan did) an original poem as typically Lorca. What I am trying to do is establish a tradition. When I'm through ... I'd like someone as good as I am to translate these translations into French (or Pushtu) adding more. Do you understand? No. Nobody does.

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