Jack Spicer
1925-1965

Jack Spicer was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry. He spent most of his writing-life in San Francisco.

The Tower of Babel

1994
Paperback
170 p.

An established writer from an Eastern college returning to his former San Francisco haunts becomes entangled in a labyrinthine series of events that culminate in the sudden violent death of a respected poet. A satiric look at the private world of poetry gone public in the wake of the Six Gallery Howl reading of October, 1955. This novel includes finely detailed sketches of the San Francisco poetry world and gay life as they existed then.

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