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| Jack Spicer |
Spicer remains an important figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and to American poetry in general, both for his individual poetic vision and the influential role he played in the lives of the poets with whom he was intertwined....
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| Orfeo
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by Jack Spicer |
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Sharp as an arrow Orpheus
Points his music downward.
Hell is there
At the bottom of the seacliff.
Heal
Nothing by this music.
Eurydice
Is a frigate bird or a rock or some seaweed.
Hail nothing
The infernal
Is a slippering wetness out at the horizon.
Hell is this:
The lack of anything but the eternal to look at
The expansiveness of salt
The lack of any bed but one’s
Music to sleep in.
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From A Book of Music by Jack Spicer. Forthcoming from The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer from Wesleyan University Press. Used by permission. |
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