Antechamber, & Other Poems - Softcover

McClure, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811206823 ISBN 13: 9780811206822

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1978

Synopsis

Antechamber and Other Poems, Michael McClure's latest book with New Directions, joins a growing list of contributions that includes the verse collection September Blackberries (1974) and Jaguar Skies (1975) as well as the musical play Gorf (1976). His writing in recent years is "alchemical" in its intent, yet his twin declarations, "Biology Is Politics" and "I Am A Mammal Patriot," perhaps express more accurately both the universality of his outlook and its humane particularity. McClure's mysticism is vigorously scientific. Even the familiar patterned shapes of his poems remind us of the stars in the night sky and those we see when we shut our eyes. In the dancing lines of his newest work--the title poem "Antechamber" most especially--are the whirl of galaxies, the radiance of molecules, the energy lines of the double helix coiling around its core.

About this title

About the Author

Michael McClure is 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 in "Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, " and "The San Francisco Chronicle, "and he has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Obie Award. His books of poetry include "Mysteriosos and Other Poems, Huge Dreams, " and "Rain Mirror." Leslie Scalapino (1944 2010) taught at Mills College in Oakland and at Bard College in New York State. Among her many books are "It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974 2006" (UC Press); "Day Ocean State of Star's Night: Poems and Writings, 1989 and 1999 2006, "and "Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows."

Review

"McClure's poetry seems to me among the very best, among the most beautiful and most joyous, being written these days. He has created his own form and his own idiom, and he has gone on to become an absolute master of it." --Aram Saroyan, Village Voice

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811206823
• ISBN 13: 9780811206822
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 98