After Lorca

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After Lorca is a 1957 poetry collection by Jack Spicer that blends verse, prose, and fictional letters to Federico García Lorca, and is considered a key experimental work of the San Francisco Renaissance.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
associatedWith American avant-garde poetry
small-press poetry culture
author Jack Spicer
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception considered a key experimental work of the San Francisco Renaissance
dedicatedTo Federico García Lorca
form epistolary elements
prose
verse
genre experimental literature
poetry
hasAuthorRole Jack Spicer as central poetic persona
hasCanonicalStatus cult classic in American poetry
hasComponent letters
poems
prose pieces
hasInfluenceOn later experimental American poets
hasSubject literary influence
poetry itself
translation as creation
hasTitleLanguage English
influencedBy Federico García Lorca
intertextualRelation dialogue with the works of Federico García Lorca
language English
literaryMovement San Francisco Renaissance
literaryPeriod 20th-century American poetry
literarySignificance early example of postmodern American poetry techniques
medium book
movementContext San Francisco Renaissance
surface form: San Francisco Renaissance poetry
narrativeDevice fictional correspondence with Federico García Lorca
notableFeature includes fictional letters to Federico García Lorca
originalPublicationFormat print
publicationYear 1957
regionAssociatedWithAuthor San Francisco
style experimental
lyric
surrealist-influenced
theme poetics
the relationship between the living and the dead
translation
voice and authorship
timePeriodOfComposition 1950s
usesTechnique hybrid prose-poetry form
metapoetic commentary
pseudo-translation

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Jack Spicer notableWork After Lorca