Of Indigo and Saffron
New and Selected Poems
Michael McClure author Leslie Scalapino editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:7th Feb '12
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This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from "A Fist Full", published in 1957, through "Swirls in Asphalt", a new poem sequence, "Of Indigo and Saffron" is both an excellent introduction to this unique American voice and an impressive selection from McClure's landmark volumes for those already familiar with his boldly inventive work. One of the five poets who heralded the Beat movement in the 1955 Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, McClure reveals in his poetry a close kinship to Romanticism, Modernism, Surrealism, and Japanese haiku. These poems - grounded in imagination and a profound regard for the natural world - chart a poetic landscape of utter originality.
"Like Philip Whalen, Charles Bukowski, and Jim Morrison (to whom one section is dedicated), McClure infuses ecstatic direct address and colloquial diction with an exquisite sensibility." Publishers Weekly "McClure's poetry seems as vital to the 21st century as it was to the 20th." Library Journal "A young reader can be inspired by McClure's radical questioning of the established social order at every turn... McClure, among all the Beat poets, is perhaps the softest, most tender, most yielding." San Francisco Chronicle
ISBN: 9780520272736
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
Weight: 454g
344 pages