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Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael McClureSeries:Penguin PoetsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1999-05-01Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140589177ISBN-10:140589171UPC:9780140589177Book Category:Poetry, Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, PoetrySize:9.06 x 6.04 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCTW4TDM99
Huge Dreams republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, which together are a cornerstone of the Beat movement: The New Book/A Book of Torture and Star. Both were influential in expanding poetry into a larger world: the West Coast Beat phenomena, which focused on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. With these books Michael McClure brought an animal energy and a knowledge of art and physical human nature that was new to the scene.

The New Book/A Book of Torture was written spontaneously while McClure was in a "dark night of the soul" brought on by psychedelics. A single long poem of experience and exploration, it offers the means of liberation from the darkness it examines. Star is a wide-ranging book of chalice seeking, spiritual discovery, and political protest, grounded in the emotions and sensations of eros and play.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140589177ISBN-10:140589171UPC:9780140589177Book Category:Poetry, Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, PoetrySize:9.06 x 6.04 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.5798Product ID:SCTW4TDM99
Michael McClure has published novels, interviews, essays, and plays. In recent years he has performed his poetry in collaboration with the Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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