Jack Spicer

Vancouver Lectures

June 13, 1965:
Lecture 1, part 1 (1:24:18): MP3 , RealAudio
Lecture 1, part 2 (1:14:00): MP3 , RealAudio

June 15, 1965:
Lecture 2, part 1 (1:26:11): MP3 , RealAudio
Lecture 2, part 2 - second half of this section to come (44:16): MP3 , RealAudio
[ excerpt: on Wallace Stevens's serial poems (3:27) ]

June 17, 1965:
Lecture 3, part 1 (1:27:06): MP3 , RealAudio
Lecture 3, part 2 (29:00): MP3 , RealAudio

Peter Gizzi's edited and annotated transcription of these lectures, The House that Jack Built, was published by Wesleyan University Press, 1998.
This electronic edition of the lectures is presented in cooperation with Peter Gizzi and Robin Blaser, for the Estate of Jack Spicer.

Jack Spicer speaks and reads from Language (full work)
The second of two shows edited by Mark Weiss in 1975 and broadcast on Susan Howe's Pacifica/WBAI Poetry program a few years later. Based on recordings from the Spicer estate. [The opening comments are from the 4th Lecture on Poetry & Politics at the Berkeley Conference on July 14th 1965. - P.Gizzi}

(58:03): MP3  (full program)
Spicer reads Language (44:43): MP3

(Note this replaces the mp3 and ra "WBAI" mp3 we had previously made available)

ALSO OF INTEREST:

From Exact Change 8 - "Imaginary Elegies," April 11, 1957 (11:10)
The Song of the Bird in the Loins (4:52): MP3 , RealAudio
from Book of Magazine Verse (20:25): MP3 , RealAudio

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the estate of the author. © 2004 Estate of Jack Spicer. Used with permission of the Estate of Jack Spicer.

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