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McClure, Michael

Overview
Works: 780 works in 1,178 publications in 17 languages and 16,865 library holdings
Genres: American poetry  Historical drama  Children's stories, American  Artists' books  Picture books for children  Oral interpretation of poetry 
Roles: Interviewee, Vocalist, Editor, Other, Narrator, Performer, Signer, Author of introduction, Correspondent
Classifications: ps3563.a262, 811.54
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22 editions published between and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 507 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published between and 1986 in English and held by 467 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 454 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published between and 1986 in English and German and held by 409 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 361 libraries worldwide
"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 from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls 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 poems--grounded in imagination and a profound regard for the natural world--chart a poetic landscape of utter originality."--Publisher's description.
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4 editions published in in English and held by 352 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published between and 1982 in 5 languages and held by 329 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published in in English and held by 301 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 300 libraries worldwide
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8 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 297 libraries worldwide
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7 editions published between and 1975 in English and held by 261 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 252 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published between and 2000 in English and held by 250 libraries worldwide
The running theme in Michael McClure's Simple Eyes & Other Poems is: looking at the world directly. The results are often as disquieting as they are illuminating, whether he directs his unblinking gaze on the American cityscape, the landscapes of Mexico and Kenya, or the mind's own terrain. In the long title poem, "Simple Eyes (Fields)," the stanzas on the Persian Gulf War bloom out of images of all wars the poet has known - "the spiritual wars, the napalm and cordite and nuclear wars, and the war against nature" - and become a kind of spiritual autobiography. At the heart of the poetry is McClure's return to the ancient concept of agnosia, the idea of knowing through unknowing, as a way of living in desperate times, in which deep human or humane feelings have almost become outlaw. Simple Eyes is an outspoken poet's statement, unsentimental, yet with mind and eye quickened by love.
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5 editions published in in English and Undetermined and held by 249 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published in in English and Undetermined and held by 246 libraries worldwide
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6 editions published in in English and held by 241 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1970 in English and held by 232 libraries worldwide
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11 editions published between and 1979 in English and held by 229 libraries worldwide
 
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