Collected Books of Jack Spicer

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Summary: "Heads Of the Town Up to the Aether" may be the best SF poem
Review: ever written or collaged or dictated into existence even if the "imperial city"/ "civitas dei" could not recognize itself in these antilyrical and mock Spicerian deformations and post-Beat revelations into the "afterlife" ghosts and Logos/lowghosts and proud slums of 1960. If this is not US poetry equal to the severe decreations of Wallace Stevens in "The Rock," then I do not know what poesy is nor SF might be as imagined into a city of imagination, vision, and mongrel community.

Rating:
Summary: "Heads Of the Town Up to the Aether" may be the best SF poem
Review: ever written or collaged or dictated into existence even if the "imperial city"/ "civitas dei" could not recognize itself in these antilyrical and mock Spicerian deformations and post-Beat revelations into the "afterlife" ghosts and Logos/lowghosts and proud slums of 1960. If this is not US poetry equal to the severe decreations of Wallace Stevens in "The Rock," then I do not know what poesy is nor SF might be as imagined into a city of imagination, vision, and mongrel community.

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Summary: A bible of inspiration
Review: This is a book of divinely inspired material. The poems obviously come from something transcendent; something undefinable (what Jack calls the Martians). Poets or artists of any sort should defintely have a copy, because like I say, it is a bible of inspiration.

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Summary: One of the great books of the 20th century
Review: When Jack Spicer died in August, 1965, he was known only to initiates of the new American poetry. Since then, his reputation has grown posthumously in a fashion unequaled since Dickinson. This is the book on which this reputation rests, one of the most searing and terrifying (and beautiful) collections ever written in English.