Larry Kearney’s Testamentality and Transcryption: An Intimate Memoir of Jack Spicer

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Testamentality, Transcryption: An Emotional Memoir of Jack Spicer by Larry Kearney (Spuyten Duyvil, paperback)

Publication Date: October 10, 2019

Publisher Marketing: Memoir of the mid sixties in San Francisco; the author meets Jack Spicer and his circle of poets and artists.

Duncan told me it was too late, that I was too late, I’d missed Spicer… I slept thru grad school with The Collected Books Of Jack Spicer for my pillow, provoking dreams of writing books of serial poems, book-length poems like Spicer’s, not journal poems… Awoke to the Great Binge of ’98, spending my teacher’s pay on whole shelves of biography/poems/lectures… And thru it all, Jack Spicer the man waited wisely inside Helen Adam’s blurry b/w snapshot and outside of time; it did seem too late to catch up. Until this. Until Larry Kearney’s new portrait, the “emotional memoir,” invites me to sit at Jack Spicer’s table, where I just now overhear him to say: “This is where the poem happens. Here.”––Rich Blevins

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