Al Young, however born in Mississip...

Al Young, however born in Mississippi, has lived greatly of his life in California, where he teaches at Stanford University. "For Jack Spicer" pays homage to the Bay Area bard whose work influenced the disentanglement of the San Francisco Renaissance. When Young published the metrical composition in the Summer 1970 issue, he was about to publish his first collection, Dancing, and he was the editor of Loveletter His piece of poetrys had recently been anthologized in The of recent origin Black Poetry.

YOUNG - who not at all met Jack Spicer personally - has explained his interest in the bard this way:

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