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Dewey Decimal 811/.5/4 Publisher Black Sparrow Books | 4.6/5 AbeBooks LC Class PS3569.P47 A6 1975 Country United States of America OCLC 1288450 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 382 pp (first edition, hardback) ISBN 0-87685-241-X (pbk.) ISBN 0-87685-242-8 (hard) Similar My Vocabulary Did This t, Poet be like God, The house that Jack built, The New American Poetry 19, After Language: Letters to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Collected Books of Jack Spicer first appeared in 1975, ten years after the death of Jack Spicer. It was "edited & with a commentary by Robin Blaser" and published in Santa Rosa, CA by Black Sparrow Press. A primary document of the San Francisco Renaissance, The Collected Books of Jack Spicer has arguably reached the status of a twentieth century "classic" and helped to define an emerging countertradition to the prevailing literary establishment. Since this edition has gone out of print, it has been updated, revised and republished as My Vocabulary Did This To Me. The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, Edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Wesleyan University Press, 2008).
Contents
Contents of The Collected Books of Jack Spicer
The content's page of The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Fifth Printing, 1996) is divided into four sections:
First (1) section
Reprints twelve books of poetry composed between 1957-1965 and in (for the most part) chronological order.Life of Arthur Rimbaud"; "A Textbook of Poetry"), 1960–61
Lancelot", "The Book of Gwenivere", "The Book of Merlin", "The Book of Galahad", "The Book of the Death of Arthur"), 1962
"Morphemics", "Phonemics", "Graphemics"), 1964
"for Tish", "for Ramparts", "for The St. Louis Sporting News", "for the Vancouver Festival", "for Downbeat"), (no date follows)