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  • THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
    JACK SPICER
    The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, wha...

    $314.00

  • CUCKOO LAND
    JACK SPICER
    Drawing on rich qualitative data, this book presents a novel way of understanding the drug market-related harm of ‘cuckooing’, providing a theoretically informed account of this increasingly high-profile area. Applying the framework of the ‘risk environment’, the book examines why people become cuckooed, how it is responded to and how this exploitative practice is socially prod...

    $640.00

  • DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT, POLICING AND HARM REDUCTION
    MATTHEW BACON AND JACK SPICER
    The policing of drugs is an intriguing, complex, and contentious domain that brings into sharp focus the multifaceted nature of the police role and has farreaching consequences for health, crime, and justice. While research on drugs policing has historically been surprisingly sparse, fragmented, and underdeveloped, the field has recently become a burgeoning area of academic stu...

    $1,100.00

  • BE BRAVE TO THINGS
    JACK SPICER
    Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display. Much of the poetry here has never before been published, but the volume also includes much out-of-print or hard to find work, as well as Spicer's three major plays, ...

    $251.00

  • MY VOCABULARY DID THIS TO ME
    JACK SPICER
    "An extraordinary collection . . .  Like the work of Emily Dickinson and W. B. Yeats, Spicer's poems still seem to come from somewhere else." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009) Winner of the American Book Award (2009) In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he left behind a ...

    $314.00