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The house that Jack built
the collected lectures of Jack Spicer
By Spicer, Jack & Gizzi, Peter
- ISBN
- 978-0-81956-339-2
- Publisher
- Hanover, NH : Published by University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press, c1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 1998
A key player in the San Francisco poetry and gay cultures of the 1940s and 1950s, Spicer (The Tower of Babel, Talisman, 1994) had, as editor Gizzi argues somewhat awkwardly, "all the curious attractions one needs to become a cult figure: minor status in his life, alien to most middle-class conventions, unhygienic, singular to a fault, and absolute." Together, these two volumes portray Spicer as a verbose but physically ugly and bad-tempered wret...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
