Delivered in Warren Tallman's basement, hence "The Basement Tapes." I once spent a month one week cleaning up part of them (including this part) for radio broadcast. Spicer was standing next to an air conditioner. What fun that was.
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>From: Jeremy F Green <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Mar 1, 2015 12:26 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Spicer
>
>Maybe this?
>
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>"And I think the second step for the poet who's going on to the poetry of
>dictation is when he finds out that these poems say just exactly the
>opposite of what he wants himself, per se poet, to say. Like if you want
>to say something about your beloved's eyebrows and the poem says the eyes
>should fall out, and you don't really want the eyes to fall out or have
>even any vague connection. Or you're trying to write a poem on Vietnam
>and you write a poem about skating in Vermont."
>
>Jack Spicer, "Vancouver Lecture 1: Dictation and 'A Textbook of of
>Poetry'" (June 13, 1965), in Peter Gizzi, ed., The House That Jack Built:
>The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1998),
>pp. 6-7.
>
>On 3/1/15 9:06 AM, "Peter Riley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Can anyone identify a quote from Jack Spicer which goes something like--
>>
>>Poetry is when you want to write a love poem to someone and you find
>>you've written "I want to stick my finger in your eye."?
>>
>>thanks, Peter
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