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Michael McClure


Born
in Marysville, KS, The United States
October 20, 1932

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Michael McClure (born October 20, 1932 in Marysville, Kansas) is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and is immortalized as "Pat McLear" in Kerouac's Big Sur. ...more

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Scratching the Beat Surface...

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3.99 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
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Michael McClure: Selected P...

3.80 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1986
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The Beard; [a Play]

3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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Huge Dreams: San Francisco ...

3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
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Ghost Tantras

3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1969 — 9 editions
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Antechamber, & Other Poems

4.09 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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Rain Mirror: New Poems

3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1999
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Of Indigo and Saffron: New ...

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Three Poems

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September Blackberries

3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1974 — 5 editions
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“I was looking at the sensoriums of heroes. I was sensing through the eyes and nose of Shelley and John Webster, and using the hearing and touch of Ginsberg and Duncan and Kerouac–â€� and the jazz lucidity of Creeley, and the Doug fir of Snyder, and the almost mystical, physical perceptions of D.H. Lawrence and of Olson himself. I was convinced that poetry was about, by, and from, the meat, that poetry was the product of flesh brushing itself against experience. We are seekers moving in the Tathagata brushing ourselves against the universe of the real, solid illusions. It is by our touches that we become ourselves –â€� as our ancestors became us and as we became our maturing, sharpening, brightening selves.”
Michael McClure, Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac

“The machines are too dull when we
are lion-poems that move & breathe.”
Michael McClure, Ghost Tantras

“Or the learn rules for the game the sea otters
Play in the surf”
Michael McClure, Agnosia y Otros Poemas



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