Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer

Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master

Be Brave to Things 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 on...