After Lorca
After Lorca Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico Garc a Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work.Jack Spicer was one of the…
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After Lorca
Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico Garc a Lorca, including translations of the great Spanish poet's work.Jack Spicer was one of the outstanding figures of the mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Renaissance, bent on fashioning a visionary new lyricism. "Frankly I was quite surprised when Mr. Spicer called his poems "dictations," and they combine outrageous humor, acid intelligence, brilliant wordplay, and sheer desolation to incandescent effect.
"It must be made clear at the start that these poems are not translations," Lorca continues. Spicer asked me to write an introduction to this volume," writes the dead Federico Garc a Lorca at the start of After Lorca, Spicer's first book and one that, since it originally appeared in 1957, has exerted a powerful influence on poetry in America and abroad. "In even the most