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My Vocabulary Did This to Me

The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

By: Jack Spicer

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My Vocabulary Did This to Me

The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

By: Jack Spicer

“An extraordinary collection . . . Like the work of Emily Dickinson and W. B. Yeats, Spicer’s poems still seem to come from somewhere else.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009) Winner of the American Book Award (2009) In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and ’60s, though in many ways Spicer’s innovative writing ran counter to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West Coast Beat movement. Now, more than forty years later, Spicer’s voice is more compelling, insistent, and timely than ever. During his short but prolific life, Spicer troubled the concepts of translation, voice, and the act of poetic composition itself. My Vocabulary Did This to Me is a landmark publication of this essential poet’s life work, and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find and many published here for the first time. “One of the most important volumes of poetry published in the past 50 years. The poems are simply wonderful, and Spicer’s mature work is some of the best ever written by an American.” —Ron Silliman, author of N/O “You finish My Vocabulary Did This to Me feeling you’ve come in contact with an original artist and a genuine one . . . You also finish the book thinking that these poems are ready to find a new audience.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819571091

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9780819571090

After Lorca

By: Jack Spicer

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After Lorca

By: Jack Spicer

Out of print for decades, this is the legendary American poet's tribute to Federico García 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. Spicer called his poems “dictations,” and they combine outrageous humor, acid intelligence, brilliant wordplay, and sheer desolation to incandescent effect. “Frankly I was quite surprised when Mr. Spicer asked me to write an introduction to this volume,” writes the dead Federico García 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. “It must be made clear at the start that these poems are not translations,” Lorca continues. “In even the most literal of them Mr. Spicer seems to derive pleasure in inserting or substituting one or two words which completely change the mood and often the meaning of the poem as I had written it. More often he takes one of my poems and adjoins to half of it another of his own, giving rather the effect of an unwilling centaur. (Modesty forbids me to speculate which end of the animal is mine.) Finally there are an almost equal number of poems that I did not write at all (one supposes that they must be his).” What so puzzles Lorca continues to delight and inspire readers of poetry today.

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New York Review of Books

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1681375419

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9781681375410

The Collected Books of Jack Spicer

By: Jack Spicer

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The Collected Books of Jack Spicer

By: Jack Spicer

The Collected Books includes all the poems written from After Lorca (1957) up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962).

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382

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Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press

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087685241X

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9780876852415

My Vocabulary Did This to Me

The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

By: Jack Spicer

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The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

By: Jack Spicer

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Rupert Red Two

A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

By: Jack Broughton

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Rupert Red Two

A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

By: Jack Broughton

Den amerikanske pilot, Jack Broughton, beretter om sin indsats som jagerpilot.

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376

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Zenith Press

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0760332177

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9780760332177

Playfair Football Annual 2011-2012

By: Glenda Rollin,Jack Rollin

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Playfair Football Annual 2011-2012

By: Glenda Rollin,Jack Rollin

The factual, concise and first-choice guide for the real fan. Now in its 64th year, PLAYFAIR FOOTBALL ANNUAL includes all the Champions League and Europa League details; a compact directory for English and Scottish clubs; English and Scottish league and cup match results; and stats on how English league clubs have fared over the last 25 years. A pocket-size treat - this is the ideal book to take to matches and settle arguments before, during and after!

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0755362349

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9780755362349

John Ogden, the Pilgrim (1609-1682)

A Man of More Than Ordinary Mark

By: Jack Harpster

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John Ogden, the Pilgrim (1609-1682)

A Man of More Than Ordinary Mark

By: Jack Harpster

John Ogden emigrated from England to the New World in 1641.

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260

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838641040

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9780838641040

The Emptiness of Business Excellence

The Flawed Foundations of Popular Management Theory

By: David Collins,Jack Collins

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The Emptiness of Business Excellence

The Flawed Foundations of Popular Management Theory

By: David Collins,Jack Collins

In Search of Excellence was the book that launched a thousand popular management books. In this concise book, David and Jack Collins demonstrate the emptiness of business excellence and in so doing reveal the flawed foundations of popular management theory. Focusing upon the conduct of those organizations vaunted as ‘exemplars of excellence’ the authors build upon insightful case reports to demonstrate wholesale misconduct at the very heart of the excellence project. Indeed, The Emptiness of Business Excellence demonstrates that the exemplars of excellence indulged bribery, corruption, racism, sexism and anti-Semitism... and more besides! Furthermore, the book demonstrates that, despite their claims to knowledge, Peters and Waterman often knew little about the financial performance of their excellent organizations and were either unaware of or had chosen to overlook reports which highlighted deeply problematic conduct within those formations, which they offered as beacons for change and renewal. This book will be of interest to researchers, scholars and students with an interest in business and management, especially those focusing on the realities of managerial practice.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000784010

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9781000784015

Plunkett's Automobile Industry Almanac 2007

By: Jack W. Plunkett

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Plunkett's Automobile Industry Almanac 2007

By: Jack W. Plunkett

Provides information on the truck and specialty vehicles business, including: automotive industry trends and market research; mergers, acquisitions, globalization; automobile manufacturers; truck makers; makers of specialty vehicles such as RVs; automobile loans, insurance and other financial services; dealerships; and, components manufacturers.

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574

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Plunkett Research, Ltd.

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1593920598

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9781593920593

Spice

The History of a Temptation

By: Jack Turner

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Spice

The History of a Temptation

By: Jack Turner

In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs. One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle

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386

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Vintage

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0307491226

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9780307491220

Book's by Jack Spicer

My Vocabulary Did This to Me

My Vocabulary Did This to Me

After Lorca

After Lorca

The Collected Books of Jack Spicer

The Collected Books of Jack Spicer

My Vocabulary Did This to Me

My Vocabulary Did This to Me

Rupert Red Two

Rupert Red Two

Playfair Football Annual 2011-2012

Playfair Football Annual 2011-2012

John Ogden, the Pilgrim (1609-1682)

John Ogden, the Pilgrim (1609-1682)

The Emptiness of Business Excellence

The Emptiness of Business Excellence

Plunkett's Automobile Industry Almanac 2007

Plunkett's Automobile Industry Almanac 2007

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