Poet Be Like God - 9780819553089
Un libro in lingua di Lewis Ellingham Kevin Killian edito da Wesleyan Univ Pr, 1998
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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 thought have attracted and intrigued an international audience. Now this comprehensive biography gives a pivotal poet his due. Based on interviews with scores of Spicer's contemporaries, Poet Be Like God details the most intimate aspects of Spicer's life--his family, his friends, his lovers--illuminating not only the man but also many of his poems.
Such illumination extends also to the works of others whom Spicer came to know, including the writers Frank O'Hara, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Helen Adam, Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, Philip K. Dick, Richard Brautigan, and Marianne Moore and the painters Jess, Fran Herndon, and Jay DeFeo. The resulting narrative, an engaging chronicle of the San Francisco Renaissance and the emergence of the North Beach gay scene during the 50s and 60s, will be indispensable reading for students of American literature and gay studies.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Poet Be Like God
- Sottotitolo: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Lewis Ellingham Kevin Killian
- Editore: Wesleyan Univ Pr
- Collana: Wesleyan Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '98
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Homosexuality and literature California Berkeley History 20th century American poetry California Berkeley History and criticism Poets, American 20th century Biography
- Pagine: 439
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 158 x 38
- ISBN-10: 0819553085
- EAN-13: 9780819553089