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Michael McClure is an award-winning American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. A key figure of the Beat Generation, McClure is immortalized as Pat McClear in Jack Kerouac’s novels The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He also participated in the ’60s counterculture alongside musicians like Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. McClure remains active as a poet, essayist, and playwright, and lives with his wife, Amy, in the San Francisco Bay area.
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new book of poems by Michael McClure is a cause for celebration. One
of the readers at the historic Six Gallery reading, McClure has been
an influential and inspired cultural presence in American literature
for the past six decades. His poetry offers a radical aesthetic that
is original and profound. In Persian Pony, his new book of
poems, McClure writes with conviction and authority, addressing the
metaphysical vision at the heart of his work with lyric precision. Persian
Pony expands on personal themes – the poetry of science and the
inner and outer dimensions of life – also including homages to inspired
friends, such as Sterling Bunnel and David Meltzer, and Blakean nature
meditations. Like electrons in a spiral cosmos, the poems of Persian
Pony rise in an operatic wave, revealing a master poet at the height
of his powers whose eco-visionary and bio-linguistic awareness extends
the borders of consciousness, enlarging our world with passionate observation.