Concord Hymn
Jack Spicer, “Concord Hymn” from My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2008). Used by permission of Peter Gizzi for The Estate of Jack Spicer.
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Poet Jack Spicer 1925–1965
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Subjects Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
Biography
Although known primarily among a coterie of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time of his death in 1965, Jack Spicer has slowly become a towering figure in American poetry. He was born in Los Angeles in 1925 to midwestern parents and raised in a Calvinist home. While attending college at the University of California-Berkeley, Spicer met fellow poets Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan. The friendship among these three poets . . .
Poems by Jack Spicer
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SUBJECT Nature, Seas, Rivers, & Streams
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
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