It's a rare poet who shuns publication; even rarer if that poet has undeniable talent. This long-overdue volume is ample evidence that Jack Spicer had much more to say than he professed and that his ...

Toward the end of his short life, Jack Spicer began to relax some of his purist principles about the publication and circulation of his poetry. In 1964, impoverished and unable to hold down a job, he ...