MEPHISTOS AND OTHER POEMS by Michael McClure ( 9780872867284 )

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MEPHISTOS AND OTHER POEMS

By:

Michael McClure

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CITY LIGHTS BOOKS

Pub. date:

15 November, 2016

Pages:

184

Description:

Eco-poetic innovations and ecstatic meditations from a founding member of the Beat Generation, Michael McClure.

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95% of poems have never been published beforefirst new collection of poetry in 5 yearswell-known Beat poet and Obie-award-winning playwrightMephistos and Other Poems begins with its title sequence and climaxes in "Song Heavy," a dramatic ode to a beached whale. With its haiku-like nature poems and poems after meditation, Mephistos renews and extends the innovative eco-poetics he launched at the Six Gallery in 1955.appears in Kerouac novels Big Sur and The Dharma Bums as Pat McLeerknown for his association with various rock & rollers, like Janis Joplin (for whom he wrote the song "Mercedes Benz"), Jim Morrison, and the Band (in whose film The Last Waltz he appears, performing a Chaucer poem)also known for collaborations with artists like Bruce Conner and Jess, and musicians like Ray Manzarek (The Doors) and Terry Riley

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