Local Notes
BEIN Zab Sp41 2008M: Numberline on t.p. verso indicates 1st printing: "5 4 3 2 1." Dust jacket.
BEIN 2018 6100: Number line: "5 4 3 2 1" on title page verso indicates 1st printing. Dust jacket. Autograph: Property of Samuel R. Delany, received from Amazon.com in March 2009, Philadelphia, read at Spicer celebration p. 110 & 122. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Summary
"While the first part of this edition, 1945-1956, doesn't include every poem he wrote at this time, our aim has been to make a judicious selection of single poems from One Night Stand [1980] and from notebooks and manuscripts in order to provide something more than an adequate sense of Spicer's first decade of writing. Therefore this edition is not a 'complete' but a 'collected' poems. ... The second part of this book gathers a more complete picture of the second half of Spicer's writing life. ... It is our aim in this volume to present a comprehensive edition of Spicer's work from 1945-1965 and to establish a fair text of his major poems, creating, in effect, his first collected poems to function as a standard reading edition."--"About this edition," p.xxviii-xxx.
Contents
I. (1945-1956). Berkeley renaissance (1945-1950)
Minnesota poems (1950-1952)
Berkeley / San Francisco (1952-1955)
New York / Boston (1955-1956)
II. (1956-1965). San Francisco (1956-1965)
Chronology
Notes to the poems
Bibliography.