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Of indigo and saffron: new and selected poems

By Leslie , McClure , Michael;Scalapino

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780520947337, 9780520262874, 0520262875, 0520947339
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1358587 bytes)
Pages
319\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American poetry

Description

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.

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