John Vincent's After Spicer

Wesleyan University Press recently released MR's own John Vincent's After Spicer, the first edited critical book dedicated to the work of Jack Spicer!  The Huffington Post declared it as "one of the most anticipated books of the year for 2011!" 

Including essays by Maria Damon, Norman Finkelstein, Kelly Holt, Catherine Imbriglio, Kevin Killian, Michael Snediker, Anita Sokolsky, and Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, this book provides an overview of Spicer’s oeuvre—his poetry, letters, plays, and his only novel—and explores his work in relation to queer theory, audience, religion, the lyric, and seriality. These essays give us crucial insights into Spicer’s transition from a regional cult figure to a canonical postmodern poet.

Jay Parini said, “After Spicer is an important collection of essays on a figure of increasing interest to all readers of American poetry. Vincent has gathered a range of (mostly) young and certainly vibrant thinkers—almost all of them poets themselves as well as critics. I found myself stimulated at every turn, glad to have read this work, and newly interested in the poetry of Spicer.”

Click here to visit Wesleyan University Press and purchase a copy today!