Jack Spicer
(1925–1965)
American poet, novelist, and essayist.
Spicer was associated with the Beat Generation primarily because of his social activities and attitudes, his friendships with Ba...
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Jack Spicer was a San Francisco poet who rejected the traditional centers for poetry--academia and the established publishing houses, using the phrase "English Department" as a derogatory description ...
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Jack Spicer's relationship to the San Francisco Beat movement was ambivalent, to say the least. Perhaps his main connection was his enthusiastic support of "Blabbermouth Night," which became an instit...
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Jack Spicer was born on 30 January 1925 in Los Angeles, where his father managed a hotel. The job provided a good income, and even during the Depression the family lived comfortably. Spicer's only sib...
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Critical Essay by Robin Blaser
My essay [is] watchful of the context of the poetry and of the composing "real" that is Jack's concern. His ignorance is not one of lack of assuran...
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Critical Essay by Michael Davidson
Spicer taught a version of antinomianism which encouraged learning through opposition and confrontation…. [He] wanted, through his poetry, to defamiliarize l...
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Critical Essay by Peter Riley
The Holy Grail is the summation of Jack Spicer's explorations into perception-as-love; it is a complete phenomenology of purpose which culminates his attention to...
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Jack Spicer
Jack Spicer
Critical Essay by Robin Blaser
