My Vocabulary Did This to Me

“An extraordinary collection . . .  Like the work of Emily Dickinson and W. B. Yeats, Spicer’s poems still seem to come from somewhere else.” — Publishers Weekly  (starred review) Winner 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. A Wes