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ISBN-10: 0520272730
ISBN-13: 9780520272736
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 01/26/2011
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 5.70" W, 1.00" H

Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems

Introduction by: Leslie Scalapino

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This essential collection of Michael McClure’s poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a new poem sequence, Of Indigo and Saffron is both an excellent introduction to this unique American voice and an impressive selection from McClure’s landmark volumes for those already familiar with his boldly inventive work. One of the five poets who heralded the Beat movement in the 1955 Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, McClure reveals in his poetry a close kinship to Romanticism, Modernism, Surrealism, and Japanese haiku. These poems–grounded in imagination and a profound regard for the natural world–chart a poetic landscape of utter originality.

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"A young reader can be inspired by McClure's radical questioning of the established social order at every turn. . . . McClure, among all the Beat poets, is perhaps the softest, most tender, most yielding."– "San Francisco Chronicle"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0520272730
ISBN-13: 9780520272736
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 01/26/2011
Dimensions: 8.60" L, 5.70" W, 1.00" H
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