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“Imagine Lucifer . . .”
Source: Poetry (July/August 2008).
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
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Religion, Arts & Sciences, Christianity, Poetry & Poets
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Poetic Terms Metaphor
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