Out Of Print For Decades, This Is The Legendary American Poet''s Tribute To Federico Garca Lorca, Including Translations Of The Great Spanish Poet''s Work.jack Spicer Was One Of The Outstanding Figures Of The Mid-twentieth-century San Francisco Renaissance, Bent On Fashioning A Visionary New Lyricism. Spicer Called His Poems Dictations, And They Combine Outrageous Humor, Acid Intelligence, Brilliant Wordplay, And Sheer Desolation To Incandescent Effect.frankly I Was Quite Surprised When Mr. Spicer Asked Me To Write An Introduction To This Volume, Writes The Dead Federico Garca Lorca At The Start Of After Lorca, Spicers First Book And One That, Since It Originally Appeared In 1957, Has Exerted A Powerful Influence On Poetry In America And Abroad.