Poetry Says

Ep 47. Jack Spicer channels the Martians


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Can poems really be ‘dictated’ from somewhere outside the poet? Or is this just a slice of California woo? In his 1965 lecture series Jack Spicer had opinions, and plenty of ’em.

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  • The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer edited by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan University Press)
  • My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan University Press)
  • Ten Poems for DownBeat – For Huntz
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