Phonemics (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack Spicer
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Communication, Poetry or poets, California, West, U.S., Speech, Water, Telephones
The Poem
“Phonemics” is in serial form; it consists of six related poems, varying in length between eleven and twenty lines. The title alludes to the study of language sounds, and it helps bring to the foreground the materiality of language in this poem as in other works of Jack Spicer.
Spicer was a professional linguist, and “Phonemics” is one of seven such serial poems in a 1965 book entitled Language. The book jacket of Language consists of the title page from an issue of a linguistics journal of the same name, an issue that contains Spicer’s...
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