Conversations with Michael McClure / edited by David Stephen Calonne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calonne, David Stephen, 1953- editor.

Series:

Literary conversations series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McClure, Michael--Interviews.

McClure, Michael.

Poets, American--Interviews.

Poets, American.

Beats (Persons)--Interviews.

Beats (Persons).

Beat poetry, American.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 202 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024]

Summary:

"Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure's creativity. McClure (1932-2020) is notable not only for his considerable achievements as a poet and prose writer of the Beat Generation, but also for the many collaborative connections he forged over seven decades. From the 1950s to his death, McClure worked with an astonishing range of important figures in the worlds of painting, filmmaking, music, and science. McClure counted among his friends and acquaintances Bruce Conner, Harold Pinter, Amiri Baraka, Richard Brautigan, Wallace Berman, George Herms, Lawrence Jordan, Dennis Hopper, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Sterling Bunnell, Francis Crick, Gary Snyder, Francesco Clemente, and Diane di Prima. During his early years in San Francisco, McClure attended Kenneth Rexroth's literary evenings and formed significant lifelong friendships. Among those friends were poet Philip Lamantia and Robert Duncan, who became a mentor to McClure. He also learned much from Charles Olson and adopted several features of Olson's concept of "Projective Verse" in his own work. McClure's exchange of letters with experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage lasted for four decades. During his illustrious career, McClure published fourteen books of poetry, eight books of plays, and four collections of essays. Conversations with Michael McClure reveals the many contributions of this central personality in the evolution of the American counterculture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Chronology

Michael McClure / David Kherdian

Gahr, groooor, grayohh: for a meat poetry

an interview with Michael McClure / Roland Husson

Michael McClure interview / David Rollison

An interview with Michael McClure / Stephen Vincent

A conversation with Michael McClure / Kevin Power

Interview with Michael McClure / Inger Thorup Lauridsen and Per Dalgard

Poetry wars: an interview with Michael McClure / Barry Miles

An interview with Michael McClure / S. E. Gontarski

An interview with Michael McClure / Steve Luttrell

Craft interview with Michael McClure / New York Quarterly

"What are souls?": an interview with Michael McClure / Jack Foley

Realm buster: Stan Brakhage / Steve Anker

Artists on the cutting edge: Michael McClure delivers a passion for poetry / George Varga

Interview with Michael McClure / Sergio Cohn

A fierce God and a fierce war: an interview with Michael McClure / Rod Phillips

Beat poet Michael McClure on Jim Morrison, the Doors, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac / Anis Shivani

Interview with poet Michael McClure / Jonah Raskin

Break on through / Garrett Caples

Poetry questions: Michael McClure / Rebecca Foresman

Beat poet Michael McClure tries new style at eighty-three / Sam Whiting - Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Conversations with michael mcclure

ISBN:

9781496851994

1496851994

9781496852007

1496852001

OCLC:

1411219149