The Collected Books of Jack Spicer first appeared in 1975, ten years after the death of Jack Spicer. It was "edited & with a commentary by Robin Blaser" and published in Santa Rosa, California by Black Sparrow Press. A primary document of the San Francisco Renaissance, The Collected Books of Jack Spicer has arguably reached the status of a twentieth century "classic" and helped to define an emerging countertradition to the prevailing literary establishment. Since this edition has gone out of print, it has been updated, revised and republished as ''My Vocabulary Did This To Me. The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer'', Edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian (Wesleyan University Press, 2008).

Contents of The Collected Books of Jack Spicer

The contents page of The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (Fifth Printing, 1996) is divided into four sections:

First (1) section

Life of Arthur Rimbaud"; "A Textbook of Poetry"), 1960–61 Lancelot", "The Book of Gwenivere", "The Book of Merlin", "The Book of Galahad", "The Book of the Death of Arthur"), 1962 "Morphemics", "Phonemics", "Graphemics"), 1964 "for Tish", "for Ramparts", "for The St. Louis Sporting News", "for the Vancouver Festival", "for Downbeat"), (no date follows)

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Third (3) section

Fourth (4) section