Michael McClure, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $10.95 (134p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1265-6
Perhaps best known for his recitation of the prologue to the Canterbury Tales in Martin Scorsese's film The Last Waltz , McClure has written more than 30 books--novels, plays, poetry, essays. Many of the poems in Simple Eyes were composed for spoken
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Michael McClure, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $8.95 (116p) ISBN 978-0-8112-0950-2
This small personal sampler of 25 years of McClure's work has an earnest and programmatic quality to it. An ecological romantic with Marxist tendencies, McClure juxtaposes the evil of politics with the virtue of what he calls ""biology,'' a kind of...
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Michael McClure, Author Penguin Books $14.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-058709-8
McClure's (Fragments of Perseus) standing as an original Beat poet will not be much modified by Three Poems. Of the three long works assembled here, only one, ``Dolphin Skull,'' is new, while ``Rare Angel'' dates to 1975 and ``Dark Brown'' to 1961....
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Michael McClure. City Lights, $16.95 trade paper (156p) ISBN 978-0-87286-728-4
McClure (Of Indigo and Saffron), a lesser-known Beat poet, remains entrenched in the once-radical poetics of mid-20th-century modernity—and in superficial experimentation that no longer exudes power in its deviance. McClure introduces the collection
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Michael McClure, edited and intro. by Leslie Scalapino, Univ. of Calif., $34.95 cloth (288p) ISBN 978-0-520-26287-4
McClure has not departed from his center-justified, breath-based lines in a career that has spanned more than half
a century. One of the readers at Allan Ginsberg's famed 1955 reading of "Howl" at San Francisco's Six Gallery, McClure, unlike...
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