The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer

by Jack Spicer and Peter Gizzi

Book Overview

Illuminates Jack Spicer's provocative lectures on radical poetics

The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819563404
• ISBN13: 9780819563408
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"