A Book of Music It

A Book of Music ItJack Spicer A new edition of the posthumously published collection A Book of Music by the American poet Jack Spicer (1925 1965). While little known outside a circle of friends and poets in his lifetime, Spicer is widely considered one of the major figures of twentieth century American poetry. After being removed from a teaching position at Berkeley in 1950 for refusing to pledge allegiance to the United States, he became a founder of the radical and

discomfiting lines

”  Drawing on experiences from her own life

and psychedelic irony

of de kwetsbare positie van de kunsten

Wat houdt zich schuil in de hoeken van de geschiedenis

language and love: how our tongues are mothered or not

om de versluierende taal waarachter de politiek zich verhult bloot te leggen

Clevidence mixes anthropology

Recalling the historical and symbolic significance of the boomerang as an instrument of return

hartverscheurend eerlijk en geëngageerd

Die beheersing blijkt ook uit de manier waarop ze klank gebruikt

its syntax -- to construct a lexicon of the future