Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco RenaissanceWesleyan University Press, 1998 M07 29 - 439 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Chapter One Prodigy Gone Wrong | 1 |
Chapter Two After Berkeley | 34 |
Chapter Three The Poet in New York and Boston | 63 |
Chapter Four The Whole Boon of His Fertility | 78 |
Chapter Five Honey in the Groin | 118 |
Chapter Six The Hell of Personal Relations | 140 |
Chapter Seven Heads of the Town | 180 |
Chapter Eight The Holy Grail | 220 |
Chapter Nine The Long Silence | 246 |
Chapter Ten Crisis | 278 |
Chapter Eleven The Chill in My Bones | 317 |
Chapter Twelve Last Summer | 344 |
Les Chimères | 366 |
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