{"product_id":"be-brave-to-things-the-uncollected-poetry-and-plays-of-jack-spicer-9780819500960","title":"Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBe Brave to Things\u003c\/i\u003e shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display. Much of the poetry here has never before been published, but the volume also includes much out-of-print or hard to find work, as well as Spicer's three major plays, which have never been collected. Here one finds major unfinished projects, early and alternate versions of well-known Spicer poems, shimmering stand-alone lyrics, and intricate extended \"books\" and serial poems. This new cache of Spicer material will be indispensable for any student of 20th century American poetry, proffering a trove of primary material for Spicer's growing readership to savor and enjoy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"When your body brushed against me. . .\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen your body brushed against me I remembered\u003cbr\u003eHow we used to catch butterflies in our hands\u003cbr\u003eDown in the garden.\u003cbr\u003eWe were such patient children\u003cbr\u003eFollowing them from flower to flower\u003cbr\u003eWaiting and hoping.\u003cbr\u003eWith our cupped hands we used to catch them\u003cbr\u003eAnd they answered us with a soft tickle\u003cbr\u003eFor they never stopped flying.\u003cbr\u003eIn bed I remembered them and cried for\u003cbr\u003eThe touch of their fast wings, the impatience\u003cbr\u003eOf their bright colors\u003cbr\u003eI am too old for such games\u003cbr\u003eBut even tonight, now your body has reminded me of butterflies\u003cbr\u003eI lie here awake, pretending.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJACK SPICER (1925--1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, \u003ci\u003eMy Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer\u003c\/i\u003e won the American Book Award for poetry. DANIEL KATZ is professor of English at the University of Warwick. His latest book is\u003ci\u003e The Poetry of Jack Spicer\u003c\/i\u003e and he is the Founding Editor of the book series Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics. He lives in Leamington Spa, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50661134958866,"sku":"9780819500960","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c19720f-0237-4ace-8624-ab1587524098.jpg?v=1733485427","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/be-brave-to-things-the-uncollected-poetry-and-plays-of-jack-spicer-9780819500960","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}