Of Indigo and Saffron New and Selected Poems [Paperback]

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 fromA Fist Full,published in 1957, throughSwirls 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 poemsgrounded in imagination and a profound regard for the natural worldchart a poetic landscape of utter originality.

Michael McClureis an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. He has collaborated with prominent artists, poets, and musicians, including Allen Ginsberg, Jim Morrison, and Terry Riley. McClure's journalism has been featured inRolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times,andThe San Francisco Chronicle,and he has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Obie Award. His books of poetry includeMysteriosos and Other Poems, Huge Dreams,andRain Mirror.

Leslie Scalapino(19442010) taught at Mills College in Oakland and at Bard College in New York State. Among her many books areIt's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 19742006(UC Press);Day Ocean State of Star's Night: Poems and Writings, 1989 and 19992006,andFloats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows.

Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, and with the passionate D.H. Lawrence. Robert Creeley

Without McClure's roar there would have been no sixties. Dennis Hopper

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