2006-06-13 09:06:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Early life and work
Spicer was born in Los Angeles and spent most of his writing life in San Francisco. He spent the years 1945 to 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began writing, doing work as a research linguist, and publishing some poetry (though he disdained publishing). During this time he searched out fellow poets, but it was his alliance with Robert Duncan and Robin Blaser that Spicer forged a new kind of poetry, and together they referred to their common work as the Berkeley Renaissance. Spicer's poetry of this period is collected in One Night Stand and Other Poems (1980). His Imaginary Elegies, later collected in Donald Allen's The New American Poetry 1945-1960 anthology, were written around this time.
In 1954, he co-founded the famous Six Gallery, the scene of the famous October 1955 Six Gallery reading that launched the West Coast Beat movement. In 1955, Spicer moved to New York and then to Boston, where he worked for a time in the Rare Book Room of Boston Public Library. Blaser was also in Boston at this time, and the pair made contact with a number of local poets, including John Wieners.
2006-06-13 09:09:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Which one?
There's Jack Spicer the poet (January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965)... or the character from Xiaolin Showdown (not real, wasn't born, didn't die).
Jack (actually John Lester Spicer) the poet was born in Los Angeles and was a part of the San Francisco Renaissance.
Jack the character is the self-proclaimed "Evil Boy Genius" that freed the witch Wuya from her puzzle box prison.
Jack the poet wrote After Lorca.
Jack the character is trying for Global Domination (think: George W. Bush) and was probably named after Jack the poet.
[Okay Wikipedia readers, it's time to start your copying and pasting...]
2006-06-13 16:08:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jack Spicer was a poet from a long time ago! Wikipedia has a lot of information on Mr. Spicer!
2006-06-13 16:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep, he's the black-haired fall guy on xiaolin showdown- i can picture omi now--"jack spicer!!"
2006-06-13 16:20:15 · answer #4 · answered by teachingazteca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some bad guy on Xiaolin Showdown. He's kinda an evil genious. But he's actually a dope.
2006-06-13 17:56:55 · answer #5 · answered by Kai 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's the bad guy on Xialin Showdown. I'm pretty sure I spelled that wrong
2006-06-13 16:10:01 · answer #6 · answered by just LAURA for now 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mrs Spices son.
2006-06-13 16:10:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the villian on Shaolin Showdown
2006-06-13 16:09:28 · answer #8 · answered by mikhaili 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
... was an American poet and dramatist who was a key part of the San Francisco Renaissance.
2006-06-13 16:09:53 · answer #9 · answered by captures_sunsets 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could be Victoria Beckham's father or Geri's
2006-06-13 16:09:03 · answer #10 · answered by worried 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋