5 Poems by Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer (1925 -1965) “Poems should echo and re-echo against each other. They should create resonances. They cannot live alone any more than we can.“ -Jack Spicer [1] Jack Spicer was born in Los Angeles on January 30, 1925. Both of his parents were from the Midwest. He met Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser at the University of California at Berkeley. Spicer considered his meeting of Duncan so important he would refer to 1946, the year they met, as his real birth date. [2] As Duncan’s, Blaser’s and