{"product_id":"poet-be-like-god-jack-spicer-and-the-san-francisco-renaissance-9780819553089","title":"Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003eJack Spicer  unlike his contemporaries Allen Ginsberg  Jack Kerouac  and Gary Snyder  was a poet who disdained publishing and relished his role as a social outcast. He died in 1965 virtually unrecognized  yet in the following years his work and thought have attracted and intrigued an international audience. Now this comprehensive biography gives a pivotal poet his due. Based on interviews with scores of Spicers contemporaries  Poet Be Like God details the most intimate aspects of Spicers life--his family  his friends  his lovers--illuminating not only the man but also many of his poems.  Such illumination extends also to the works of others whom Spicer came to know  including the writers Frank OHara  Robert Duncan  Denise Levertov  Helen Adam  Robin Blaser  Charles Olson  Philip K. Dick  Richard Brautigan  and Marianne Moore and the painters Jess  Fran Herndon  and Jay DeFeo. The resulting narrative  an engaging chronicle of the San Francisco Renaissance and the emergence of the North Beach gay scene during the 50s and 60s  will be indispensable reading for students of American literature and gay studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45529620447285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0819553085","price":498.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780819553089.jpg?v=1780939360","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/poet-be-like-god-jack-spicer-and-the-san-francisco-renaissance-9780819553089","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}