My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Spicer JackPaperback
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Spicer JackPaperback An essential collection of a highly original American poetWinner of the Northern California Independent…
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My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer Spicer JackPaperback
An essential collection of a highly original American poetWinner 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. Now, more than forty years later, Spicer's voice is more compelling, insistent, and timely than ever. 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.
My Vocabulary Did This to Me is a During his short but prolific life, Spicer troubled the concepts of translation, voice, and the act of poetic composition itself.