Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems (Penguin Poets)
by McClure, Michael
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- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0140589171
- ISBN 13
- 9780140589177
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Phillybooks COM LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 531ZZZ02BZ8G_ns
- Title
- Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems (Penguin Poets)
- Author
- McClure, Michael
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140589171
- ISBN 13
- 9780140589177
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1999-05-01