Selected Poems of McClure Pa

by Michael McClure

"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,...

• 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"

Customer Reviews

Get away from the poetry they fed you in college

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.