{"id":1409,"date":"2009-05-16T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2009-05-16T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T14:25:32","slug":"jack-spicer-nyc-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/jack-spicer-nyc-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Spicer NYC Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night’s Jack Spicer Celebration (Panel & Reading), ostensibly for the publication of My Vocabulary Dis This To Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer<\/a>,<\/em> at The Poetry Project & co-sponsored by Poets House, was an excellent & moving affair. That it happened on the very day Robin Blaser was buried, added a tinge of sadness \u2014 but maybe also a dimension of depth. Thus when Kevin Killian recounted Duncan’s retelling of the story of Robin witnessing Spicer’s last words \u2014 the title of the book celebrated \u2014 & Duncan’s suggestion that if Robin were present at his death he’d also want a tape-recorder in the room, I couldn’t help wondering about Robin’s last words and if anyone except Robin witnessed them. But the celebratory spirit of the event & Spicer’s sharp wit won out over such sadsack mullings. It was a pleasure to meet George Stanley who I had never met before \u2014 & to see a whole range of old friends gathered in NYC for the occasion. (Interesting discussion started by George, I think, on West Coast \u2014 East Coast differences in approach to poetry, though those coastal categories seem a bit too pat in our nomadic world). Also fascinating was Kevin Killian’s interview with Deborah Remington, an artist who way back when had been a student in Spicer’s classes as well as one of six founders of the famous “6 Gallery.” The readings of Spicer’s poems were mainly splendid \u2014 it was quite an experience to hear one poet’s voice & words come through the air shaped & sounded by some 14 different voices. I closed my eyes at one moment & imagined this was Jack speaking through a Martian radio & doing all the different voices himself. And opened my eyes again to see what a community of poets can be, even if only as a momentary constellation, but a community as foreshadowed in the Four of Cups on the cover of the old Black Sparrow Collected Books of Jack Spicer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Didn’t have my camera with me, but took a few shots with the iPhone that didn’t come out too well, though here’s one I like, showing Kevin Killian & Peter Gizzi (the editors of the book) caught in the flash of Dodie Bellami’s new camera.<\/p>\n

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