After Lorca

"Poor Narcissus My sorrow Self of my sorrow" (p.39) Jack Spicer, my LOVE!! This is for lovers of O'Hara who want more!

Revolutionary, iconoclastic, singular and simply brilliant. I am officially converted. I can't believe it's taken me as long as 4 years to pick up a book by Jack Spicer, a poet I discovered a few years ago. He has to be one of the most important American poets of the 20th Century, hands down. This is i Leggi tutto

Muy, muy chingón y como diría mi Pata (que me lo recomendó), locazo.

Dios bendito que precioso poemario! Me pareció muy divertido el juego de intentar adivinar cuales poemas son traducciones y cuales apócrifos. Además las cartas que le escribe a Federico son tan lindas. ME ENCANTÓ!!!!!!

In the introduction, by Federico Garcia Lorca himself (more likely written by Spicer, considering Lorca, in 1957, had been dead 21 years, something Spicer, or whomever authored the introduction, alludes to - "The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy" - and offers something in the way of any explanat Leggi tutto

The entire text of this, Spicer's first published collection, is contained in the new-ish My Vocabulary Did This To Me . I also read through the first section of that book which is a number of poems he referred to as "one night stands," i.e. poems that are not connected to any other poem. His aesthet Leggi tutto

Spicer's letters to Lorca were probably my favourite part of this, although I did end up warming up to the poems over time, some of which were amazing as a whole. This is one of those texts that, once you sit down and discuss it or even just contemplate it alone after finishing, you'll appreciate al Leggi tutto

brief and absolutely breathtaking

L'ambiente è intimo: quattro persone sono rivolte verso l'ingresso della libreria Modo Infoshop di via Mascarella, altre otto gli danno le spalle guardando dalla parte opposta. Si parla di Jack Spicer, uno dei più grandi poeti americani della seconda metà del secolo scorso, per lo più sconosciuto in Leggi tutto