Publication

1999 - Shambhala, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

29,500 words, Guess

Page Count

118 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL377862M
  • ISBN-101570624402
  • OCLC Control Number39727717
  • Library of Congress Control Number98039898
  • LibraryThing1118084
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  • Goodreads230201

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3563.A262 T6 1999

Description

The Work of the Celebrated Beat Poet Michael McClure has always been innovative: his book Ghost Tantras incorporated his "beast language" - a vocabulary of growls, roars, and moans interspersed with human speech. He co-wrote the Janis Joplin hit "Mercedes-Benz," was literary mentor to The Doors singer Jim Morrison, and performs his poetry internationally with the piano accompaniment of keyboardist and composer Ray Manzarek. Now McClure has written a book of poems unlike any of his others. These dharma devotions are fruits of his Buddhist meditation practice. Like bold calligraphy moving vertically down a white scroll, they surprise the eye and mind, and so awaken us to a heightened sense of everyday things.

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