After Lorca:

"Like all of Spicer's best work, After Lorca is "an argument between the dead and the living." He was haunted by Jean Cocteau's image of Orpheus as a poet taking dictation from the beyond through radio broadcasts only he could hear-he liked to say his own messages might be c...

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1. Verfasser: Spicer, Jack (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York New York Review Books [2021]
Schriftenreihe:New York Review Books poets
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Zusammenfassung:"Like all of Spicer's best work, After Lorca is "an argument between the dead and the living." He was haunted by Jean Cocteau's image of Orpheus as a poet taking dictation from the beyond through radio broadcasts only he could hear-he liked to say his own messages might be coming from Martians. But as he wrote in his 1965 book Language, "The trouble with comparing a poet with a radio is that radios/ don't develop scar tissue.""--
Beschreibung:xv, 66 Seiten