{"product_id":"a-book-of-music","title":"A Book of Music","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eA new edition of the posthumously published collection \u003cem\u003eA Book of Music\u003c\/em\u003e by the American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWhile little known outside a circle of friends and poets in his lifetime, Spicer is widely considered one of the major figures of twentieth century American poetry. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAfter being removed from a teaching position at Berkeley in 1950 for refusing to pledge allegiance to the United States, he became a founder of the radical and counter-cultural San Francisco Renaissance movement of poets in an age when homosexuality was illegal. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHe believed that the poet was a “radio” able to collect transmissions from an “invisible world,” as opposed to the idea that poetry was driven by a poet’s voice and will. In this sense he believed that his poems were dictated from a spirit world and saw poetry as a form of magic, most potent when spoken aloud. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHe died at the age of 40 in the poverty ward of San Francisco General Hospital, from acute alcohol poisoning. One of his last coherent sentences was, “My vocabulary did this to me.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis new edition of \u003cem\u003eA Book of Music, \u003c\/em\u003epublished 65 years after its original was composed, is risograph printed on Munken Lynx paper and saddle-stitched by Earthbound Press. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pilot Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357950058836,"sku":"A8B-32515","price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/Num_C3_A9riser_2081_484b20fb-74b6-479e-b32e-d0a3182652f6.jpg?v=1790813477","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/a-book-of-music","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}