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Death alone is motion
By Jack Spicer
By Jack Spicer, from his Poetry as Magic Workshop questionnaire. Spicer conducted the workshop in San Francisco in the spring of 1957. Participants included Helen Adam, Robert Duncan, and Jack Gilbert. The document appears in My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, published last fall by Wesleyan University Press, and in the Summer issue of Brick.
This questionnaire is in no sense designed to indicate whether you can write poetry. Since the workshop is limited to fifteen people, I must have some guide as to which of you would most benefit from a workshop of this particular content. Some of the questions will seem bizarre or pointless, but it would be useful if you would answer all of them as precisely as possible.
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| SEE ALSO: Authorship; Adam, Helen; Gilbert, Jack; Questionnaires; Duncan, Robert; San Francisco | ||
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