Comments on: The Lager Letters (A Satirical Review of The Yage Letters) https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-lager-letters-a-satirical-review-of-the-yage-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-118913 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:49:59 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1781#comment-118913 Thanks, Jed. I’ll definitely check out what Mimeo Mimeo has published about him. I’ve been listening to podcasts of Spicer reading–there are a few available free online–as well as discussions of his work.

]]> By: jed https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-lager-letters-a-satirical-review-of-the-yage-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-118904 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:29:33 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1781#comment-118904 I would not group him with the Beats. He is usually listed as a SF Renaissance poet, but you can further narrow that down to Berkeley Renaissance (late 1940s into the 1950s) with Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan as his peers. Poets influenced by Spicer include Harold Dull, Stan Persky, and James Alexander. The key magazines and presses are White Rabbit, Auerhahn, Open Space and J. Check out Mimeo Mimeo for lots more Spicer material and a complete review of Open Space publications.

]]> By: Mike https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-lager-letters-a-satirical-review-of-the-yage-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-118883 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:03:45 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1781#comment-118883 Would you group hiim with the Beats? Or with any other poetic school/movement?

]]> By: jed https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-lager-letters-a-satirical-review-of-the-yage-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-118882 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:58:32 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1781#comment-118882 Spicer resented the Beats, did not consider himself a Beat poet, and disliked the fact that his poetry was linked to their work in places like Evergreen Review and the related San Francisco Poets LP.

]]> By: Mike https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-lager-letters-a-satirical-review-of-the-yage-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-118880 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:19:13 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1781#comment-118880 I never knew that there were divisions between East and West coast writers of that era. Did Spicer consider himself a Beat poet?

]]> By: davee mac https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-lager-letters-a-satirical-review-of-the-yage-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-115108 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:26:50 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1781#comment-115108 calling that ‘satire’ is a bit like calling my school playground impressions of my teachers ‘cutting edge political theatre’!

]]> By: Graham Rae https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-lager-letters-a-satirical-review-of-the-yage-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-115097 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:58:37 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1781#comment-115097 And I really like ‘episstles’ and ‘avant’gargles’. Nice stuff.

]]> By: Graham Rae https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-lager-letters-a-satirical-review-of-the-yage-letters/comment-page-1/#comment-115095 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:54:43 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=1781#comment-115095 Speaking of satire…no cow is scared to me…I always started off rebelling against the things that headpsinfluenced me most before jumping into their depths…maybe didn’t want to admit their power over me…

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