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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 43
Top works
- House That Jack Built
- Homage to Creeley
- Jack Spicer's Beowulf
- Indian summer
- Degré
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 212
- Total plays
- 810
Tags
poetamerican
Jack Spicer (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965) was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jack+Spicer">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lester
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Place of death
- San Francisco
- Occupation
- translator
- Educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- Employer
- Stanford University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- American Book Awards
- Movement
- San Francisco Renaissance
- Image
- JackSpicer-OD2015.jpg
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- date of death
- 1965-08-17
- date of birth
- 1925-01-30
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- place of burial
- Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
- birth name
- John Lester Spicer
- significant person
- George Stanley
Sources (10)
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