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Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems Paperback - 1999

by Michael McClure


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Huge Dreams republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, which together are a cornerstone of the Beat movement: The New Book/A Book of Torture and Star. Both were influential in expanding poetry into a larger world:the West Coast Beat phenomena, which focused on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. With these books Michael McClure brought an animal energy and a knowledge of art and physical human nature that was new to the scene.

The New Book/A Book of Torture was written spontaneously while McClure was in a "dark night of the soul" brought on by psychedelics. A single long poem of experience and exploration, it offers the means of liberation from the darkness it examines. Star is a wide-ranging book of chalice seeking, spiritual discovery, and political protest, grounded in the emotions and sensations of eros and play.

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Huge Dreams republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, which together are a cornerstone of the Beat movement: The New Book/A Book of Torture and Star. Both were influential in expanding poetry into a larger world: the West Coast Beat phenomena, which focused on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. With these books Michael McClure brought an animal energy and a knowledge of art and physical human nature that was new to the scene.

The New Book/A Book of Torture was written spontaneously while McClure was in a "dark night of the soul" brought on by psychedelics. A single long poem of experience and exploration, it offers the means of liberation from the darkness it examines. Star is a wide-ranging book of chalice seeking, spiritual discovery, and political protest, grounded in the emotions and sensations of eros and play.

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  • Title Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems
  • Author Michael McClure
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1999-05-01
  • ISBN 9780140589177 / 0140589171
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.04 x 0.55 in (23.01 x 15.34 x 1.40 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Geographic Orientation: California
  • Library of Congress subjects Beat generation - Poetry, San Francisco (Calif.) - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98047393
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

Excerpt

MATTER

MATTER IS ALIVE, BY GOD
MATTER IS ALIVE!
The grains of crystal slide.
It is the molecular consciousness!
((I must be a Pagan
to survive it
?TO SURVIVE
this vision.
With grinning teeth!))
It takes its shape.
Fanatic Will.
Dripping. Pouring. Pressing.
HAH!
Copyright ? 1998 Penguin Putnam Inc. All rights reserved.

About the author

Michael McClure has published novels, interviews, essays, and plays. In recent years he has performed his poetry in collaboration with the Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek.
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