This insider's view of the Beat scene of the fifties and early sixties vividly marks the advancement of a new perception of art as "a living bio-alchemical organism" through essays by a poet and playwright who helped shape the movement.
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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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This review is from: Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac (Paperback)
As a person fortunate enough to have met Michael McClure, it seems only natural that I would appreciate this book. However, I read this book a few years before I was actually privileged with Mr. McClure's presence. What I found so refreshing about this book is that not only are we, as readers, exposed to new insight into the Beat phenomenom but we are graced with the knowledge of someone who was there and lived it. McClure allows us into his mind and gives us a private tour of what many literary individuals have meant to him. While there are many wonderful and deserving books out there on the topic, one can't help but feel blessed upon discovering this beauty. I found that it not only allowed me to experience literature in a whole new element but it also allowed me to experience it through the eyes of a quiet master of the art. This is definitely a read that I highly recommend.
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In 1958 I ate the American Indian drug peyote for the first time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Scratching the Beat Surface, San Francisco, Six Gallery, Rant Block, Mexico City Blues, Wolf Net, Human Universe, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, The Shape of Energy, Charles Olson, Mammal Gallery, New York, Robert Duncan, Society Howard, Sung Dynasty, William Carlos Williams New!
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- Mexico City Blues: 242 Choruses by Jack Kerouac on 6 pages
- Environment, Power, and Society (Environmental Science and Technology Series) by Howard T. Odum on page 75, page 83, and Back Matter
- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on page 143, and Back Matter
- The Maximus Poems by Charles Olson on page 43, and Back Matter
- The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri on page 143, and Back Matter
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- The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Michael Davidson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Whitman's Wild Children: Portraits of Thirteen Poets by Neeli Cherkovski on page 77, page 86, and page 88
- Blows Like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture by Preston Whaley Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Beat Book: Writings from the Beat Generation by Anne Waldman on page 314, and Back Matter
- San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination Series) by Mick Sinclair on page 186, and Back Matter
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