| "[A] vital collection, bringing together late masterpieces long out of print and a raft of previously unpublished lyrics...his wild forms break through the confines of traditional lyric, revealing new, discomfiting vistas." - Christopher Schmidt 12/18/2008 "This remarkably fresh assemblage...will dramatically expand Spicer's influence. Like the work of Emily Dickinson and W.B. Yeats, Spicer's poems still seem to come from somewhere else...." (Starred review.) 10/20/2008 "Though he dreamed of a community of poets and did what he could to create one around himself, his poetry communicates a vast isolation; this is its strength, for it gives his vulnerable and unmelodious words an immense space in which to resonate." - Barry Schwabsky 12/17/2008 "Spicer's poetry is brutally to the point, often beautiful, and spare. It's just this type of system-jamming that makes his poetry and his biography, after decades of attentive parsing, still wonderfully alien." - Travis Nichols 01/01/2009 "[This] definitive, one-volume introduction to Spicer's work....should ensure that [he] is once again regarded as a major figure in the post-war San Francisco poetry scene." - Ian Pindar 04/10/2009 |
