Who is jack spicer

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American Poets Magazine. Poets Search more than 3, biographies of contemporary and classic poets. Jack Spicer — Photo credit: Helen Adam. Related Poets. Allen Ginsberg. Thom Gunn. Robert Duncan. James Merrill. Gary Snyder. Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter. What is particularly interesting is that gay bars were a neutral territory for the Beats and Renaissance poets.

I asked Ellingham if the Anxious Asp Green was claimed by one of the groups of writers. He responded, "It was gay. It's of note because it marks his last heterosexual relationship before he met Peter Orlovsky who was his partner for the rest of his life. Vesuvio's Columbus makes it into the mythology of Jack Kerouac as well. On an evening in he had arranged to visit Henry Miller in Big Sur. But instead of making the trip he spent the evening drinking in Vesuvio's, calling Miller periodically to update him on his lack of progress.

Though the Beat era passed quickly in San Francisco, its influence did not end immediately. Ginsberg took part in one of the first protests of Vietnam in town, in while Kennedy was president. Joplin performed frequently at the Coffee Gallery, which is also the spot where the Jefferson Airplane first played.

The influence of the San Francisco Renaissance is still with us as Lewis Ellingham's most recent book of poetry Black Sand was released earlier this year. Jack later meets Ashley again in " Katnappe! He hires a samurai named Tubbimura in " Shen Yi Bu " to retrieve the Sword of the Storm for him, which he does after defeating Raimundo.

However, they are unsuccessful in nabbing the Shroud of Shadows and lose the previously mentioned Shen Gong Wu in a showdown against the Dragon of Wind. In " Chameleon ", Jack introduces his Chameleon-Bot, who can shapeshift into anything or anyone.

He proceeds to kidnap Kimiko and replaces her with the Chameleon-Bot. Wuya then promptly ends her association with Jack, despite his protests and proceeds to attack the Xiaolin Temple.

Unfortunately, Mala Mala Jong is defeated by the monks, which leaves her running back to Jack. Raimundo challenges him to a showdown over the Reversing Mirror and then loses, staying around long enough to see the former betray Omi, Kimiko, Clay and Dojo to work for Wuya instead. This also begins a recurring theme of Jack trying to impress and partner up with Chase, which the latter almost always rejects.

It is later recovered by Kimiko and Jack during " Saving Omi ", although the process causes Jack to leave evil chi behind, turning him good.

When Omi travels into the future with Dojo, it is revealed that in his absence Jack Spicer had conquered the world, Raimundo, Kimiko, Clay and Master Fung have been thrown into prison along with the villains. In the attempt to restore the timeline, Raimundo, Kimiko, and Clay are presumably killed by Jack-Bots in front of Omi, much to his shock and horror.

In this timeline, Clay has been chosen as the leader and Raimundo and Kimiko are farmers alongide Good Jack and a now good Chase Young. Once Hannibal Roy Bean has been defeated, the timeline is restored when Omi causes a paradox that resets everything. Jack is shown to gather all the villains in front of the Xiaolin Temple and the monks head off into a final battle against them with Raimundo as their leader.

Jack made his first appearance " New Monk on the Block ", the series premiere as he voices his frustration about not conquering the world yet. He later challenges Ping Pong , the newest monk, to a showdown and loses the Monkey Spear and Bubble Brains in consequence.

He is later shown with Katnappe, Tubbimura, Muffin Face , and the Cyclops planning to raid the Xiaolin Temple and is thwarted by the monks. His plan is later to kidnap the Golden Bunnies and melt them down into gold for money. He appears briefly in " Xiaolin Redemption " to compete in another showdown against Omi and loses. After turning Raimundo, Kimiko, Clay and Ping Pong except Omi into jungle cats in " Princess Kaila of the Thousand Layer Mountain ", Chase Young turns Jack into a rat, despite the fact that he initially requested to be turned into a jungle cat as well.

He appears briefly in " Mi Temple, Mi Casa " to compete in the showdown with the monks and Chase, only to be subsequently defeated. He is last seen in " Fly the Dragon!

In her ghost form, Wuya is highly critical of Jack and repeatedly berates him for his blunders. In her human form however, Wuya is shown to be a lot more patient with Jack and he treats her with more respect. Ironically, out of all the villains teaming up, their partnership is the longest, despite the multiple instances of double crossing. When Wuya crawls back to Jack to become partners again after Mala Mala Jong was shattered but he wasn't happy with the way she treated him because she left him for the ancient demon warrior.

Jack thinks highly of Chase Young and considers him to be his evil role model. Throughout most of the original series' second season, Jack tries to impress Chase with Shen Gong Wu and proposes they should team up.

However, Chase rejects him each time and finds all the attention rather annoying. Although he looks up to Chase, Jack has no problem double crossing him and seeing him as an obstacle to his own evil plans.

Jack first meet Shadow when she was disguised as Willow and briefly tried hitting on her. The pair have little interaction by themselves as Shadow spends most of her time with Chase. Shadow seems to find Jack just as troublesome as Chase does, though they have worked together at least once.

The pair have frequently battled over Shen Gong Wu with Jack being on the losing end of showdowns. Omi believes there is good in Jack and has tried to convince him to give up being evil, such as in " Citadel of Doom " and " The Apprentice ".

However, Jack refuses though he does promise to treat him and the other monks to ice cream one day in the future. He has endangered him and the monks several times, and in " The Last Temptation of Raimundo " and " Dangerous Minds ". Jack almost destroyed Raimundo's hometown with a volcanic eruption. Raimundo has little patience for his incompetence and finds him to be a huge jerk. Nonetheless, the two have worked together when it suits their mutual benefit, in " Saving Omi " Raimundo provided a distraction while Jack helped Kimiko retrieve Omi's good chi and restore him to normal.

Furthermore, Raimundo did not object to Jack's offer about treating the monks to ice cream on their down time. He has endangered her and the monks several times, a prominent example leaving them along with Chase Young to be devoured by giant spiders in " Dangerous Minds ". She has little patience for his buffoonery and finds him to be a creep. Furthermore, Kimiko usually treats him with courtesy like Screams of the Siren when she asked him "need a lift" unless he intentionally provokes her.

Furthermore, Kimiko did not object to Jack's offer about treating the monks to ice cream on their down time. Like Kimiko, he also came from a wealthy background. Jack and Clay can be described as having tumultuous relationship at best and then antagonistic one at worst.

At times, it seems as though Jack goes out of his way to single out Clay in terms of harassment; he frequently insults his intelligence, weight, and livelihood as a cowboy. In return, Clay seems to go out of his way to mess with Jack, as seen in " Dangerous Minds " when scaring him with the process of how spiders eat their prey. At the same time, Spicer never abandoned himself to the linguistic turn. On this, the poet is unambiguous: The Outside uses language but is not identified with it.

Extended past what the words mean and below, God damn it, what the words are. Spicer considered it one of his greatest feats of dictation. In , back in Berkeley, he and Duncan roomed briefly with a peculiar young man named Philip K. Dick, who once supplied an LP-recording device for their parlor games of poetic performance.

As Killian and Lewis Ellingham point out in their definitive Spicer biography, Poet Be Like God , the books of Dick and of Spicer later became mirror images of each other, in theme as well as in imagery—grasshoppers, Martians, radios, salesmen, cities. Spicer, who worked with computers in the course of his linguistics research, wrote about silicon and punched IBM cards; he cannily foresaw, in , an America ruled by networked computers.

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