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The Collected Books

by Jack Spicer · 1975

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The Collected Books includes all the poems written from After Lorca (1957) up to the poet's early death, including Admonitions (1958), A Book of Music (1958), Billy the Kid (1958), The Holy Grail (1962), Book of Magazine Verse, et al. Plus Robin Blaser's seminal long essay, "The Practice of Outside", on Spicer's poetics of dictation, and various appendices.

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