Author: David Stephen Calonne
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149685201X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure’s creativity. McClure (1932–2020) is notable not only for his considerable achievements as a poet and prose writer of the Beat Generation, but also for the many collaborative connections he forged over seven decades. From the 1950s to his death, McClure worked with an astonishing range of important figures in the worlds of painting, filmmaking, music, and science. McClure counted among his friends and acquaintances Bruce Conner, Harold Pinter, Amiri Baraka, Richard Brautigan, Wallace Berman, George Herms, Lawrence Jordan, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Sterling Bunnell, Francis Crick, Gary Snyder, Francesco Clemente, and Diane di Prima. During his early years in San Francisco, McClure attended Kenneth Rexroth’s literary evenings and formed significant lifelong friendships. Among those friends were poets Philip Lamantia and Robert Duncan, who became a mentor to McClure. He also learned much from Charles Olson and adopted several features of Olson’s concept of “Projective Verse” in his own work. McClure’s exchange of letters with experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage lasted for four decades. During his illustrious career, McClure published fourteen books of poetry, eight books of plays, and four collections of essays. Conversations with Michael McClure reveals the many contributions of this central personality in the evolution of the American counterculture.
Conversations with Michael McClure
Author: David Stephen Calonne
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149685201X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure’s creativity. McClure (1932–2020) is notable not only for his considerable achievements as a poet and prose writer of the Beat Generation, but also for the many collaborative connections he forged over seven decades. From the 1950s to his death, McClure worked with an astonishing range of important figures in the worlds of painting, filmmaking, music, and science. McClure counted among his friends and acquaintances Bruce Conner, Harold Pinter, Amiri Baraka, Richard Brautigan, Wallace Berman, George Herms, Lawrence Jordan, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Sterling Bunnell, Francis Crick, Gary Snyder, Francesco Clemente, and Diane di Prima. During his early years in San Francisco, McClure attended Kenneth Rexroth’s literary evenings and formed significant lifelong friendships. Among those friends were poets Philip Lamantia and Robert Duncan, who became a mentor to McClure. He also learned much from Charles Olson and adopted several features of Olson’s concept of “Projective Verse” in his own work. McClure’s exchange of letters with experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage lasted for four decades. During his illustrious career, McClure published fourteen books of poetry, eight books of plays, and four collections of essays. Conversations with Michael McClure reveals the many contributions of this central personality in the evolution of the American counterculture.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149685201X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure’s creativity. McClure (1932–2020) is notable not only for his considerable achievements as a poet and prose writer of the Beat Generation, but also for the many collaborative connections he forged over seven decades. From the 1950s to his death, McClure worked with an astonishing range of important figures in the worlds of painting, filmmaking, music, and science. McClure counted among his friends and acquaintances Bruce Conner, Harold Pinter, Amiri Baraka, Richard Brautigan, Wallace Berman, George Herms, Lawrence Jordan, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Sterling Bunnell, Francis Crick, Gary Snyder, Francesco Clemente, and Diane di Prima. During his early years in San Francisco, McClure attended Kenneth Rexroth’s literary evenings and formed significant lifelong friendships. Among those friends were poets Philip Lamantia and Robert Duncan, who became a mentor to McClure. He also learned much from Charles Olson and adopted several features of Olson’s concept of “Projective Verse” in his own work. McClure’s exchange of letters with experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage lasted for four decades. During his illustrious career, McClure published fourteen books of poetry, eight books of plays, and four collections of essays. Conversations with Michael McClure reveals the many contributions of this central personality in the evolution of the American counterculture.
Rain Mirror
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214261
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"Rain Mirror," writes Michael McClure, "stands as my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, 'Haiku Edge' and 'Crisis Blossom, ' which are quite disparate from one another." Together, the poems complement each other as do light and dark. "Haiku Edge" is a poem of linked haiku, often humorous, sometimes harsh, and always elegant. "Crisis Blossom," in contrast, is a long poem in three parts that records the author's "state of psyche, capillaries, muscles, fears, boldnesses, and hungers down where they exist without management," and the months of shock and recovery during a psychophysical meltdown.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214261
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"Rain Mirror," writes Michael McClure, "stands as my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, 'Haiku Edge' and 'Crisis Blossom, ' which are quite disparate from one another." Together, the poems complement each other as do light and dark. "Haiku Edge" is a poem of linked haiku, often humorous, sometimes harsh, and always elegant. "Crisis Blossom," in contrast, is a long poem in three parts that records the author's "state of psyche, capillaries, muscles, fears, boldnesses, and hungers down where they exist without management," and the months of shock and recovery during a psychophysical meltdown.
Ghost Tantras
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872866270
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Lion roars, detonated dada, and visceral emotional truths: McClure describes these tantras as “ceremonies to change the nature of reality."
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 0872866270
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Lion roars, detonated dada, and visceral emotional truths: McClure describes these tantras as “ceremonies to change the nature of reality."
Conversations with Gary Snyder
Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781496811622
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than half a century of interviews with one of the most distinguished contemporary American poets
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781496811622
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than half a century of interviews with one of the most distinguished contemporary American poets
The Beard
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : One-act plays, American
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : One-act plays, American
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Specks
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889226883
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legendary poet Michael McClure expands upon Charles Olson's proprioceptive poetic with Aristotelian metaphysics, Lorca's duende, environmental awareness, and biological exploration.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889226883
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Legendary poet Michael McClure expands upon Charles Olson's proprioceptive poetic with Aristotelian metaphysics, Lorca's duende, environmental awareness, and biological exploration.
Three Poems
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Jaguar Skies
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Mule Kick Blues
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872868144
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end. Completed over the last years of his life, Mule Kick Blues is the final book of poems by Beat Generation legend Michael McClure. Taking its title from an innovative sequence of homages to blues musicians like Leadbelly, Willie Dixon, and Howlin' Wolf, and evoking Kerouac's concept of "blues" poems, Mule Kick Blues contains stark meditations on the poet's mortality as well as the nature and zen poems for which McClure is known. With shout-outs to lifelong friends like Philip Whalen, Diane di Prima, and Gary Snyder, the long poem"Fragments of Narcissus," and the profound and moving sequence "Death Poems," Mule Kick Blues is a definitive statement by one of the most significant American poets of the last 60 years. "His validity and his intelligence and his intensity and his curiosity about the complexly diverse world in which we live is to me extraordinarily interesting."--Robert Creeley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780872868144
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end. Completed over the last years of his life, Mule Kick Blues is the final book of poems by Beat Generation legend Michael McClure. Taking its title from an innovative sequence of homages to blues musicians like Leadbelly, Willie Dixon, and Howlin' Wolf, and evoking Kerouac's concept of "blues" poems, Mule Kick Blues contains stark meditations on the poet's mortality as well as the nature and zen poems for which McClure is known. With shout-outs to lifelong friends like Philip Whalen, Diane di Prima, and Gary Snyder, the long poem"Fragments of Narcissus," and the profound and moving sequence "Death Poems," Mule Kick Blues is a definitive statement by one of the most significant American poets of the last 60 years. "His validity and his intelligence and his intensity and his curiosity about the complexly diverse world in which we live is to me extraordinarily interesting."--Robert Creeley
Amazing, Amazing Life Advice
Author: Michael McClure
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781725803671
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Is your life amazing? If it is, could it be more amazing? Michael McClure's life certainly wasn't amazing after being let go from his first job out of college for "performing below company standards" and "exceeding allowable vacation days". He spent the next three years applying to, and getting rejected by almost every tech company in the Bay Area. None even asked him to interview. Frustrated, Michael abandoned his pursuit of helping a corporation, and began his pursuit of helping people... by writing a self-help book. This is that book. Complete with instructional diagrams, photos, and 100+ original illustrations, Amazing, Amazing Life Advice contains Michael's expertise on a wide-range of topics, including how to use your phone less, excel at your job, eat healthy, give back to society, live sustainably, and much more!!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781725803671
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Is your life amazing? If it is, could it be more amazing? Michael McClure's life certainly wasn't amazing after being let go from his first job out of college for "performing below company standards" and "exceeding allowable vacation days". He spent the next three years applying to, and getting rejected by almost every tech company in the Bay Area. None even asked him to interview. Frustrated, Michael abandoned his pursuit of helping a corporation, and began his pursuit of helping people... by writing a self-help book. This is that book. Complete with instructional diagrams, photos, and 100+ original illustrations, Amazing, Amazing Life Advice contains Michael's expertise on a wide-range of topics, including how to use your phone less, excel at your job, eat healthy, give back to society, live sustainably, and much more!!