{"product_id":"the-house-that-jack-built-the-collected-lectures-of-jack-spicer-9780819563408","title":"The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlluminates Jack Spicer's provocative lectures on radical poetics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House That Jack Built\u003c\/i\u003e 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 poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has called \"the practice of outside,\" is an authoritative edition of an underground classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Gizzi's afterword elucidates some of the fundamental issues of Spicer's poetry and lectures, including the concept of poetic dictation, which Spicer renovates with vocabularies of popular culture: radio, Martians, and baseball; his use of the California landscape as a backdrop for his poems; and his visual imagination in relation to the aesthetics of west-coast funk assemblage. This book delivers a firsthand account of the contrary and turbulent poetics that define Spicer's ongoing contribution to an international avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jack Spicer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.05w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819563408","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710525313161,"sku":"9780819563408","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_fcf34aeb-8208-4646-a23a-65b9c8c3375f.jpg?v=1719537841","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-house-that-jack-built-the-collected-lectures-of-jack-spicer-9780819563408","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}