Great Regulars: The poet's effort, moreover, according

to [Jack] Spicer, involved keeping a "public mask." Such distances between the private and public invited a creative spirit or otherness that allowed language to lift above the petty values of the tribe in order to restore communal knowledge. (The mask also protected the poet's privacy, saving him from the painful projections of others.) In order to expand the capacities of the tribe, the mask the poet wore represented that motivating otherness in poetry.

from Dale Smith: Bookslut: Marsupial Inquirer: Spicer's "Golem"

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