Huge dreams : San Francisco and Beat poems / Michael McClure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClure, Michael.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Penguin poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

San Francisco (Calif.)--Poetry.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Beats (Persons)--Poetry.

Beats (Persons).

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 169 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 1999.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0140589171

OCLC:

40074168