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Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems
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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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- Penguin Publishing Group Brand
- May 1, 1999 Pub Date:
- 9780140589177 ISBN-13:
- 0140589171 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9.02 in * 5.98 in * 0.44 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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