Research Catalog

Title

Of indigo and saffron : new and selected poems / Michael McClure ; edited and with an introduction by Leslie Scalapino.

Author

McClure, Michael

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Scalapino, Leslie
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xv, 319 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry
• Poetry, Modern > 21st century

Genre/Form

• American poetry – 20th century.
• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From hymns to St. Geryon, 1959. The breech -- Poem (Linked part to part) -- Point Lobos : animism -- For the death of 100 whales -- Poem (I wanted to turn to electricity) -- The mystery of the hunt -- Peyote poem -- From a fist full, 1956-1957. The air -- Two weeks baby sunbathing -- For a drawing by Jess -- From dark brown, 1961. Oh giddy blank white page -- The root the ion the pride to the leaf -- Oh bring oh blood back the courage -- Oh why oh why the blasted love -- Oh ease oh body-strain oh love -- Abaved dearn a-dearn death-fear -- To your huge smooth face and hand -- From the new book/a book of torture, 1961. Ode to Jackson Pollock -- The chamber -- Ode for soft voice -- Yes table -- From For Artaud -- La Plus Blanche -- Rant block -- From little odes, 1961. Ode (the love and vision of the instant -- Ode (Oh black and cold I see in) -- Hummingbird Ode -- Ode (My words are plain) -- Fantasy ode -- Ode (wildnesses and high act lie in a fabric) -- From ghost tantras, 1964. Goooooor! -- Pleasure fears me -- Oh lovely line -- Marilyn Monroe -- Silence the eyes! -- I love to think -- The stars are a shield -- In tranquility -- From star, 1970. Mad sonnet -- Love lion -- Cold Saturday mad sonnet -- Mad sonnet 2 -- Poisoned wheat -- From hail three who play, 1974. Oh muse -- From September blackberries, 1974. Written above the Sierras / in the Flyleaf of Regis Debray's -- Gray Fox at Solstice -- Springs -- From Jaguar skies, 1975. Poetics -- Stanzas from rare angel, 1975. Loveliness / of gold flakes -- So now it's serious -- Another spot - somewhere / else -- Love and hunger comprise hatred -- Dürer, Raphawl, and Shang dynasty -- From fragments of Perseus, 1983. Dream : the night of December 23rd -- Captives -- From Rebel lions, 1984. Dark brown eyes of seals -- Rose rain -- "To glean the livingness of worlds" -- Dark contemplation -- Freewheelin's tattoo -- From Simple eyes & other poems, 1993. Spirit's desperado -- Mexico seen from the moving car -- The butterfly -- The cheetah -- Stanzas from Dolphin skull, 1995. This cloud is a life -- The cloud that Raphael found -- Stick figures of Jack and Jill -- I am a God with a hugh face -- Hold, let this moment -- The old rabbit begins to wink -- From Rain mirror, 1999. Oh accident! -- Hey, it's all con / sciousness -- Pink bandaid stuck -- Moldy / Board -- Brass / and / turquoise -- Oh / hum / ming / bird -- Hey / driver -- The dry / fir needle -- The fox turd / is a cliff -- The heron -- Orion -- Before dawn -- Butterflies -- From Crisis blossom. Grafting one -- Grafting two -- Grafting five -- Grafting nine -- Grafting fourteen -- Bud -- Grafting eighteen -- Grafting nineteen -- Flower -- From After the solstice. "Give way or be smitten into nothingness" -- From Plum stones: cartoons of no heaven, 2002. Plum stone two -- Plum stone six -- Plum stone fifteen -- We sit on black cushions -- Plum -- Unchanged -- Swirls in asphalt. 1. A forest of horses -- 2. No more ferocity -- 3. I polished the stars -- 4. The moment is our -- 5. How badly -- 6. We go through this -- 7. The moment does not -- 8. I love speaking -- 9. If we go one step -- 10. The cat lies against -- 11. The "contingent flux" -- 12. "Blind seeing" -- 13. In the painted chamber -- 14. Imagination enables -- 15. Cascading synapses -- 16. I strike outwards -- 17. Musk crab shell -- 18. O lion head, uplift me -- 19. From the peak -- 20. The forest of horses -- 21. Samhain -- 22. Swirl of asphalt -- 23. Right here -- 24. Platforms of whiteness -- 25. Muscle tissue tendon -- 26. Zinging into senses -- 27. I save myself -- 28. Lamb salmon prawn -- 29. Proud of testosterone -- 30. The kernel of each -- 31. Breadth of being -- 32. The sunset moment -- 33. Children are casualties -- 34. We swim in the illumination -- 35. A vulture flies over the edge -- 36. Liquid mercury in the palm -- 37. A birth of a photon -- 38. We have always wanted to do this -- 39. Transiency like the shape of water -- 40 The presence of a laugh -- 41. Freckles of white plum blossoms -- 42. Let there be murders -- 43. The intention of creating -- 44. The music is not so bright -- 45. Fire, water, earth, air, meat -- 46. I am the full grown old man here -- 47. A hunk of irrevocable nothing -- 48. From the non-beginning of the wave -- 49. The marching band in the forest -- 50. The pursuit of consequence -- 51. Nothing abolishes chance -- 52. You find the unfinished -- 53. Spontaneously perfect nothing -- 54. Lives in the morning air -- 55. Subtract us from ourselves -- 56. Dazed with the fantasy -- 57. Black souls are cleared for victory -- 58 Miracles full blown in our faces -- 59. What good money owns us? -- 60. Old age in a nazi nation -- 61. I report that -- 62. The quest of consciousness is nada -- 63. No reason to hold back the party -- 64. Swiftly moving jagged unrecognizable -- 65. No thundering footsteps dissolve.

ISBN

9780520262874 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010032585

OCLC

606760518

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library