{"product_id":"kearney-larry-testamentality-transcryption-an-emotional-memoir-of-jack-spicer","title":"Kearney, Larry: Testamentality, Transcryption: An Emotional Memoir of Jack Spicer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTestamentality, Transcryption: An Emotional Memoir of Jack Spicer \u003c\/em\u003eby Larry Kearney (Spuyten Duyvil, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 10, 2019\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003eMemoir of the mid sixties in San Francisco; the author meets Jack Spicer and his circle of poets and artists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuncan told me it was too late, that I was too late, I'd missed Spicer... I slept thru grad school with The Collected Books Of Jack Spicer for my pillow, provoking dreams of writing books of serial poems, book-length poems like Spicer's, not journal poems... Awoke to the Great Binge of '98, spending my teacher's pay on whole shelves of biography\/poems\/lectures... And thru it all, Jack Spicer the man waited wisely inside Helen Adam's blurry b\/w snapshot and outside of time; it did seem too late to catch up. Until this. Until Larry Kearney's new portrait, the \"emotional memoir,\" invites me to sit at Jack Spicer's table, where I just now overhear him to say: \"This is where the poem happens. Here.\"––Rich Blevins\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31361847656471,"sku":"9781949966688","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/image_6530e973-16cc-4c18-832b-f12e57281212.gif?v=1587411942","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/kearney-larry-testamentality-transcryption-an-emotional-memoir-of-jack-spicer","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}