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1. This book brings the large fields of policing and drugs
together; two distinct areas rarely studied together. 2. This book
also has a market among public health scholars, given the
overlapping areas of interest.
1. This book brings the large fields of policing and drugs
together; two distinct areas rarely studied together. 2. This book
also has a market among public health scholars, given the
overlapping areas of interest.
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After Lorca (Paperback)
Jack Spicer, Peter Gizzi
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Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an
American master 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, which have never been collected. Here one finds major
unfinished projects, early and alternate versions of well-known
Spicer poems, shimmering stand-alone lyrics, and intricate extended
"books" and serial poems. This new cache of Spicer material will be
indispensable for any student of 20th century American poetry,
proffering a trove of primary material for Spicer's growing
readership to savor and enjoy. "When your body brushed against me.
. ." When your body brushed against me I remembered How we used to
catch butterflies in our hands Down in the garden. We were such
patient children Following them from flower to flower Waiting and
hoping. With our cupped hands we used to catch them And they
answered us with a soft tickle For they never stopped flying. In
bed I remembered them and cried for The touch of their fast wings,
the impatience Of their bright colors I am too old for such games
But even tonight, now your body has reminded me of butterflies I
lie here awake, pretending.
The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant
drug market developments in the UK over recent years. This book
analyses how it is being responded to by the police in affected
provincial areas. Drawing on unique ethnographic fieldwork, it
takes readers into police stations and out onto the streets with
officers, providing timely insight into the policing of this high
profile and challenging drug market context. The book considers the
use of new police tactics that have been proposed and familiar
methods that officers regularly embarked on. Through a
sophisticated theoretical framework it argues that the policing of
County Lines can often be considered 'symbolic', with concerns
regularly placed on sending out strong messages that appear
superficial when closely examined. Alongside this, however, there
appears to be a progressive shift towards a more pragmatic drugs
policing approach that embraces harm reduction principles.This
cutting-edge research speaks to academics in Criminology and
Policing, and to practitioners and policy makers.
Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an
American master 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. Most 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, which have never been collected. Here one finds major
unfinished projects, early and alternate versions of well-known
Spicer poems, shimmering stand-alone lyrics, and intricate extended
"books" and serial poems. This new cache of Spicer material will be
indispensable for any student of 20th century American poetry,
proffering a trove of primary material for Spicer's growing
readership to savor and enjoy. "When your body brushed against me.
. ." When your body brushed against me I remembered How we used to
catch butterflies in our hands Down in the garden. We were such
patient children Following them from flower to flower Waiting and
hoping. With our cupped hands we used to catch them And they
answered us with a soft tickle For they never stopped flying. In
bed I remembered them and cried for The touch of their fast wings,
the impatience Of their bright colors I am too old for such games
But even tonight, now your body has reminded me of butterflies I
lie here awake, pretending.
In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he
left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies
of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet,
his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and
'60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative writing ran counter
to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West
Coast Beat movement. Now, more than forty years later, Spicer's
voice is more compelling, insistent, and timely than ever. During
his short but prolific life, Spicer troubled the concepts of
translation, voice, and the act of poetic composition itself. My
Vocabulary Did This to Me is a landmark publication of this
essential poet's life work, and includes poems that have become
increasingly hard to find and many published here for the first
time.
The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant
drug market developments in the UK over recent years. This book
analyses how it is being responded to by the police in affected
provincial areas. Drawing on unique ethnographic fieldwork, it
takes readers into police stations and out onto the streets with
officers, providing timely insight into the policing of this high
profile and challenging drug market context. The book considers the
use of new police tactics that have been proposed and familiar
methods that officers regularly embarked on. Through a
sophisticated theoretical framework it argues that the policing of
County Lines can often be considered ‘symbolic’, with concerns
regularly placed on sending out strong messages that appear
superficial when closely examined. Alongside this, however, there
appears to be a progressive shift towards a more pragmatic drugs
policing approach that embraces harm reduction principles.This
cutting-edge research speaks to academics in Criminology and
Policing, and to practitioners and policy makers.
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, what
Robin Blaser has called "the practice of outside," is an
authoritative edition of an underground classic.
Peter Gizzi's afterword elucidates some of the fundamental issues
of Spicer's poetry and lectures, including the concept of poetic
dictation, which Spicer renovates with vocabularies of popular
culture: radio, Martians, and baseball; his use of the California
landscape as a backdrop for his poems; and his visual imagination
in relation to the aesthetics of west-coast funk assemblage. This
book delivers a firsthand account of the contrary and turbulent
poetics that define Spicer's ongoing contribution to an
international avant-garde.
In 1965, when the poet Jack Spicer died at the age of forty, he
left behind a trunkful of papers and manuscripts and a few copies
of the seven small books he had seen to press. A West Coast poet,
his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and
'60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative writing ran counter
to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West
Coast Beat movement. Now, more than forty years later, Spicer's
voice is more compelling, insistent, and timely than ever. During
his short but prolific life, Spicer troubled the concepts of
translation, voice, and the act of poetic composition itself. My
Vocabulary Did This to Me is a landmark publication of this
essential poet's life work, and includes poems that have become
increasingly hard to find and many published here for the first
time.
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