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Paperback Selected Poems of McClure Pa Book

ISBN: 0811209512

ISBN13: 9780811209519

Selected Poems of McClure Pa

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"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,...

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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.
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