Jack Spicer was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance.
11 Facts About Jack Spicer
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In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry.
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Jack Spicer spent most of his writing-life in San Francisco.
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Jack Spicer graduated from Fairfax High School in 1942, and attended the University of Redlands from 1943 to 1945.
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Jack Spicer spent the years 1945 to 1950; and from 1952 to 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began writing, doing work as a research-linguist, and publishing some poetry.
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In 1955, Jack Spicer moved to New York City and then to Boston, where he worked for a time in the Rare Book Room of Boston Public Library.
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Jack Spicer returned to San Francisco in 1956 and started working on After Lorca.
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Jack Spicer participated in, and sometimes hosted, Blabbermouth Night at a literary bar called The Place.
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Jack Spicer refused to have his work copyrighted, and after 1960, Jack Spicer refused to publish his work outside of California.
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Jack Spicer considered City Lights Bookstore a tourist destination, and boycotted selling his work there.
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Jack Spicer's works created pre-1975 were published in One Night Stand and Other Poems, with Donald Allen as editor.