Selected Poems of McClure Pa
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"Poetry," Michael McClure has said, "is not a system but is real events spoken of, or happening, in sounds." And for thirty years, whether in his early "Dionysian" lyrics or his evolving "bio-alchemical" wisdom, his work has shown a ferocious energy and driving physicality. A poet of and for our time, his own formal structures--the shape of his poems and his highly charged breath-line--nevertheless look back to the classics, to the Proven?al troubadours, and to the Romantic verse of Blake, Keats, and Shelley. McClure's Selected Poems is the first major retrospective collection of a poet and Obie-winning playwright associated with the San Francisco Renaissance from its start as well as the early Beat movement. The poems in the book, chosen by McClure himself, hold the undiminished force of three decades' work distilled. Included in Selected Poems are poems and long passages from nine of the author's earlier collections.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811209512
ISBN13:9780811209519
Release Date:March 1986
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:132 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"
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Get away from the poetry they fed you in college
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
McClure's poetry does need to be read aloud (get Love Lion, his album, for a demonstration) but this is good a transcript to work from as any; a perfect lead in to his books, poems of which are from nine of.
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