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Mephistos and Other Poems
Michael McClure
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Description for Mephistos and Other Poems
Paperback. Eco-poetic innovations and ecstatic meditations from a founding member of the Beat Generation, Michael McClure. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 240 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
A landmark work of bio-romanticism, Mephistos and Other Poems is the first completely new collection in five years from legendary Beat and SF Renaissance poet Michael McClure, reflecting his interests in mammal consciousness and ecological survival. The title sequence stems from McClure's ongoing grafting experiment, growing new poems from fragments of previously ones. Some Fringes is a series of haiku-like nature poems, while the seventeen-part Rose Breaths derives from the poet's practice of meditation. The freestanding poems grouped under the title Being pay homage to many of McClure's collaborators and fellow travelers ... Read more
A landmark work of bio-romanticism, Mephistos and Other Poems is the first completely new collection in five years from legendary Beat and SF Renaissance poet Michael McClure, reflecting his interests in mammal consciousness and ecological survival. The title sequence stems from McClure's ongoing grafting experiment, growing new poems from fragments of previously ones. Some Fringes is a series of haiku-like nature poems, while the seventeen-part Rose Breaths derives from the poet's practice of meditation. The freestanding poems grouped under the title Being pay homage to many of McClure's collaborators and fellow travelers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
250g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872867284
SKU
V9780872867284
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About Michael McClure
Michael McClure is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving from Kansas to San Francisco as a young man, he was one of the five poets who participated in the legendary 1955 Six Gallery reading that featured the public debut of Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem Howl. McClure remains a key figure of the Beat Generation and is immortalized ... Read more
Reviews for Mephistos and Other Poems
McClure's observations and most importantly his feelings about the universe are uncannily explicit, palpable in their expression. A reading of one or two poems brings you deeper into a sense of being, an exquisite immediacy to everything in you and above you and around you that is so sudden in its effect it's almost startling.
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