My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer by Spicer, Jack

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

An essential collection of a highly original American poetWinner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for...
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Author: Jack Spicer
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Language: English
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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer by Spicer, Jack

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

$27.95

My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

$27.95
Author: Jack Spicer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

An essential collection of a highly original American poet

Winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Award for Poetry (2009)
Winner of the American Book Award (2009)

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.



Author: Jack Spicer
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 08/15/2010
Pages: 508
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780819570901

About the Author

JACK SPICER (1925-1965) published books including After Lorca (1957), Billy the Kid (1959), and The Holy Grail (1962). PETER GIZZI is a poet and author of numerous books, including The Outernationale (2007), who lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts. KEVIN KILLIAN is a poet, novelist, critic, and playwright living in San Francisco.


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