Huge dreams
Huge dreams: San Francisco and Beat poems Michael McClure
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1999.
ISBN: 0140589171
DDC: 811.54
LCC: PS3563
Summary:
For the first time in one volume, The New Book / A Book of Torture
and Star present vividly contrasting sides of poetry's consciousness.
In The New Book / A Book of Torture, a classic example of immediate
biological expression, Michael McClure simultaneously delves into,
and delivers himself from, the self-christened "dark night of the
soul." Star, a book of wide-ranging exploration, spiritual discovery,
and political protest, springs from the essence of our humanity -
emotions, the sensations of eros, and play. Both were influential in
expanding poetry into a larger world that focused on nature, the
environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism,
jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. Together these two
books impart a sense of the rich texture and individuality that
fueled the Beat scene.
Notes:
Introduction: "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities ..." / Robert Creeley
-- Epigraph -- Ode to Jackson Pollock -- For Jack Kerouac/The Chamber
-- Deep Cloud -- Ode on the End of Jazz -- For Charles Olson -- A
Fantasy and Courtly Poem -- Ode for Soft Voice -- Fragment of a Hymn
-- Lines from a Peyote Depression -- The Room -- The Strain -- Yes
Table -- For Artaud -- Rant Block -- The Column -- L'Etoile, The Star
-- The Flowers of Politics, One -- The Flowers of Politics, Two -- A
Small Secret Book: 1. For Philip Lamantia -- A Small Secret Book: 2.
Oh Christ God -- A Small Secret Book: 3. The Shark Is the Lamb -- A
Small Secret Book: 4. Oh Christ Oh God -- A Small Secret Book: 5. For
Thelonious Monk -- A Cool Pamphlet -- Ode to the Rose -- For Jane --
Blue Rose -- Pollen -- La Plus Blanche -- 13 Mad Sonnets -- For an
Unknown Melody -- November's Texas Song -- Small Ode on the Need to
Drink -- A Rose -- The Lion-Beams -- The Purple One -- Love &
Strength -- The Pansy.
Ode to the Negative Universe -- Valentine's Day Sonnet -- Sonnet --
Mad Sonnet -- Mad Sonnet -- The Child -- Under the Black Trees -- The
Surge -- A Thought -- The Answer -- The Human Face -- A Thought --
There Is Not Passion Enough -- Love Lion Book -- Drunk Variation --
Grahr Mantra -- Poisoned Wheat -- For Kenneth Anger -- Overpop --
Variation -- Mantra -- William H. Bonney: Billy the Kid -- Cupid's
Grin -- Matter -- The Sermons of Jean Harlow & The Curses of Billy
the Kid -- Viet Nam Song -- Liberation.
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