{"product_id":"spicer-jack-be-brave-to-things-the-uncollected-poetry-and-plays-hb-copy","title":"Spicer, Jack: Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays (HB)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdited and with an introduction by Daniel Katz (Wesleyan University Press, hardcover)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublication Date: November 9, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublisher Marketing: Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBe Brave to Things\u003c\/i\u003e shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display. Much of the poetry here has never before been published, but the volume also includes much out-of-print or hard to find work, as well as Spicer's three major plays, which have never been collected. Here one finds major unfinished projects, early and alternate versions of well-known Spicer poems, shimmering stand-alone lyrics, and intricate extended \"books\" and serial poems. This new cache of Spicer material will be indispensable for any student of 20th century American poetry, proffering a trove of primary material for Spicer's growing readership to savor and enjoy.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"When your body brushed against me. . .\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen your body brushed against me I remembered\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow we used to catch butterflies in our hands\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDown in the garden.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe were such patient children\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFollowing them from flower to flower\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWaiting and hoping.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith our cupped hands we used to catch them\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd they answered us with a soft tickle\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor they never stopped flying.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn bed I remembered them and cried for\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe touch of their fast wings, the impatience\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOf their bright colors\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI am too old for such games\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut even tonight, now your body has reminded me of butterflies\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI lie here awake, pretending.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44220029665303,"sku":"9780819578150","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/9780819578150_6ec90.jpg?v=1635539773","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/spicer-jack-be-brave-to-things-the-uncollected-poetry-and-plays-hb-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}