As he wrote in his 1963 poem The Child, Who were the lion men with faces of fur / and manes / who bent by my crib to bless me?. We are sorry. A second performance followed at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium on the July 24, 1966. This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt. He had long hair, and I had long hair. On Oct. 7, 1955, McClure gave his first-ever poetry reading at the now-defunct Six Gallery in San Francisco. He had an eleven-year run as playwright-in-residence with San Francisco's Magic Theatre where his operetta "Minnie Mouse and the Tap-Dancing Buddha" had an extended run. Love is body beating upon body, the confrontation of face and face or shoulder and shoulder. The roomsnot important but like divisions of all spaceof all hideousness and beauty. Ive interviewed many artists over the years and here again Michael is singular. McClure famously read selections of his Ghost Tantra poetry series to the caged lions in the San Francisco Zoo. (Like several poets Ive known who were born in the 30s, Michael used the computer like a typewriter.) On the one hand, Michaels poems never disappear visually, the way a left-justified poem arguably does. I didnt know Michael very well, Ferlinghetti said. I am friendly with the achein my belly. Their tiny heads (in proportion to their bodies) were bent utterly submerged in their business and sweeping side to side as a salmon doesor as a wolf does but with a Pleistocene, self-involved gentleness beyond our ken. In addition to his wife, whom he married in 1997, he is survived by a daughter from his first marriage, Dr. Jane McClure. For McClure, I think, centering his poems paralleled the competing but not necessarily contradictory paradigms of abstract expressionism: art as an expression of its own objecthood and art as a record of its own creation. Michael McClure, who took part in a 1955 San Francisco poetry reading that is considered the founding moment of the Beat generation and who went on to collaborate with rock musicians such as. At twenty-two he gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read.
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