{"product_id":"even-strange-ghosts-can-be-shared-the-collected-letters-of-jack-spicer","title":"Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCollected correspondence showcases the dazzling intelligence of an iconic American writer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe more than 300 letters collected in \u003ci\u003eEven Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared\u003c\/i\u003e are a crucial component of Jack Spicer's unique oeuvre, and they radiate with the brilliance, ferocity, and vulnerability that characterizes his poetry. Spicer writes tenderly to lovers and friends in self-reflective series that recall the poetic sequences in \u003ci\u003eMy Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer\u003c\/i\u003e. Letters to elders like Charles Olson and Ezra Pound and to poetic collaborators like Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan provide insight into the inner workings of an avant-garde, and are indispensable documents for students of 20th century American poetry. Writing to younger poets, Spicer offers inspiring words of mentorship--sometimes with a sting--about how to live in total devotion to art. Spicer's letters paint a unique portrait of the political and personal challenges faced by a gay man at mid-century, including documents from his involvement in the early gay rights movement. The fully annotated letters in \u003ci\u003eEven Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared\u003c\/i\u003e contribute vital details to Spicer's biography, \u003ci\u003ePoet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e (by Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian). They stand alongside the recently published \u003ci\u003eBe Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer\u003c\/i\u003e (edited by Daniel Katz) as key components of Spicer's inventive and influential writings. Readers of Spicer's poetry will delight to find his extraordinary letters--previously uncollected and mostly never-before-published--in one volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication of this book is funded by the\u003cbr\u003eBeatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund\u003cbr\u003eat the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48515813802233,"sku":"9780819501905","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_c5b6444d-d4d3-4cee-84c6-5684d2361368.jpg?v=1781209241","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/even-strange-ghosts-can-be-shared-the-collected-letters-of-jack-spicer","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}