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

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITORS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITORS Jack Spicer was born in Los Angeles in 1925. He moved north to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he became friends with Robin Blaser and Robert Duncan, among other poets, artists, and scholars who were part of the San Francisco scene. He died in 1965. During his short but prolific life, he published many books of poems through small presses, including After Lorca (1957), Billy the Kid (1958), and The Holy Grail (1962). Peter Gizzi is a poet whose recent books include The Outernationale (2007) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (2003); he is also the editor of The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (1998), all published by Wesleyan. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Kevin Killian is a poet, novelist, critic, and playwright. He is the co-author of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (Wesleyan University Press, 1998), and the author of a book of poetry, Argento Series (2001), two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989), and two books of stories, Little Men (1996) and I Cry Like a Baby (2001). Spicer: My Vocabulary Did This to Me page 472 ...