The Collected Books of Jack Spicer
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, California 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.
Contents of ''The Collected Books of Jack Spicer''
The contents page of The Collected Books of Jack Spicer is divided into four sections:First (1) section
- After Lorca, With an Introduction by Federico García Lorca, 1957
- Admonitions, 1958
- A Book of Music, with words by Jack Spicer, 1958
- Billy the Kid, 1958
- Fifteen False Propositions Against God, 1958
- A Red Wheelbarrow,
- Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes to James Alexander,
- Lament for The Makers, 1961
- Heads of the Town up to the Aether,, 1960–61
- The Holy Grail,, 1962
- Language,, 1964
- Book of Magazine Verse,,
Third (3) section
- Imaginary Elegies I-VI
- The Unvert Manifesto
- Song for Bird and Myself
- Poem to the Reader of the Poem
- "Poetry as Magic" Workshop Questionnaire
- The Trojan Wars Reviewed: A Capitulation
- ''Troy Poem''