Books by Michael McClure
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Scratching the Beat Surface : Essays on...
Paperback – 175 pages
Reissue Edition (November 1994), Penguin USA
This insider's view of the Beat scene of the fifties and early sixties vividly marks the advancement of a new perception of art as "a living bio-alchemical organism" through essays by a poet and playwright who helped shape the movement.
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Touching the Edge : Dharma Devotions...
Paperback – 128 pages
1st Edition (May 1999), Shambhala Publications
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Huge Dreams : San Francisco and Beat...
Paperback - 192 pages
(May 1999), Penguin USA (Paper)
Huge Dreams republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, both influential in expanding poetry into a larger world, which focuses on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. |
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Rain Mirror: New Poems
| This book contains two long poems, 'Crisis Blossom' and 'Haiku Edge'. "Haiku Edge" is a serial poem of linked haikus in the American idiom that catches moments in the landscape of Oakland's East Bay Hills where McClure now lives. "Crisis Blossom" in contrast is a long poem in three parts that records the poet's months' long shock and recovery after a near-fatal airplane accident. |
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Three Poems: Dolphin Skull, Rare Angel,...
| In ``Dolphin Skull,'' he attempts to compress the depth of history into one illuminated moment. ``Rare Angel'' leads readers through primordial prehistory and out through the Zen tentacles of the modern unconscious self--arriving again and again at a certain poeticized fallout, ``the shapes of bookends, rugs, and tractors.'' ``Dark Brown'' shrieks page after page of tormented self-realization. |
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