Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance by Lewis Ellingham, Kevin Killian

Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance

Lewis Ellingham, Kevin Killian

439 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography literary poetry challenging informative slow-paced

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Jack Spicer, unlike his contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder, was a poet who disdained publishing and relished his role as a social outcast. He died in 1965 virtually unrecognized, yet in the following years his work and th...

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