My Vocabulary Did This To Me Midwinter Day

My Vocabulary Did This To Me Midwinter DayJack Spicer (ed. Peter Gizzi & Kevin Killian) 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 West Coast poet, his influence spanned the national literary scene of the 1950s and '60s, though in many ways Spicer's innovative writing ran counter to that of his contemporaries in the New York School and the West Coast Beat

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but also a willingness to explore the possibility that the world

As occasional pieces

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one of Uruguay's most famous poets

where she was born

Seared by the world and everything in it

to what “catches in the throat

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Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives

but in the end

known as “yellow rain