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SPICER'S VOCABULARY RISES AGAIN!

(portrait from JARED WHITE'S review)


JACK SPICER
THE FOUR OF CUPS READING!

(The four of cups was used on the
cover of his Black Sparrow collection,
and the four of cups BODLY means
"WELCOME INTO THE FAMILY!")



TUESDAY, 5/12/09, 7PM
AGAINST THE WALL OF DIRTY FRANK'S
13th & Pine Streets, PHILADELPHIA

BRING YOUR FAVORITE SPICER POEMS
(if it rains bring an umbrella NO RAIN DATES FOR POETRY)


exerpt from A POEM TO THE READER OF THE POEM

When I said this was a poem to the reader
I wanted to dig a pitfall
Only you could fall into.
You
Know who you are
Know how terribly far
From last night you are.
If I am old when you read this,
If I am dead when you read this,
Darling, darling, darling,
It was last night
When I wrestled with you.
I am wrestling with you.


SOME ONLINE SPICER LINKS

from EOAGH: QUEERING LANGUAGE
"PILLAR OF SALT" by Jack Spicer, with an AFTERWORD by Kevin Killian


on PENNSOUND

feature in JACKET MAGAZINE

his EPC PAGE

review in THE NATION by BARRY SCHWABSKY

IF YOU DON'T HAVE A COPY OF HIS NEW COLLECTION MY VOCABULARY DID THIS TO ME, THEN PLEASE CONSIDER BUYING IT FROM CITY LIGHTS OR MODERN TIMES IN SAN FRANCISCO IN HONOR OF SPICER'S LOVE FOR THE BAY AREA, OR BUY IT FROM A LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE SOMEWHERE BUT NOT FROM AMAZON, NOT FROM BARNES & NOBLE AND NOT FROM BORDERS FOR CRIPES SAKE! KEEP IT LOCAL AND KEEP IT INDEPENDENT IN HONOR OF SPICER!

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