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Get away from the poetry they fed you in college
McClure's poetry does need to be read aloud (get Love Lion, his album, for a demonstration) but this is good a transcript to work from as any; a perfect lead in to his books, poems of which are from nine of. ... Read more

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Incredible!
Michael McClure is one of THE most talented, powerful, and original poets alive, without a question.He paints a beautiful picture with his chaotic style.Never have I read a poem that had such an effect on me, after youread ANY of these three poems, you will understand. ... Read more

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"Rain Mirror," writes poet Michael McClure, "is my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, 'Crisis Blossom' and 'Haiku Edge' which are quite disparate from one another." Yet brought under a single cover, the poems compliment each other as do light and dark, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, Yin and Yang. "Haiku Edge" is a serial poem of linked haikus in the American idiom. Often humorous, sometimes harsh, always elegant, they catch moments in the landscape of Oakland's East Bay Hills where McClure now lives. "Crisis Blossom" in contrast is a long poem in three parts ("Graftings," "After the Solstice," and "After Meltdown") that record the poet's months' long shock and recovery after a near-fatal airplane accident. It is, in McClure's words, "my state of psyche, capillaries, muscles, fears, boldnesses, and hungers, down where they exist without managment." With Rain Mirror, the poet moves in two directions, inward and outward, to arrive at the balance point between the self and nonself: "THERE'S ME/and no me/on the other side/I'm here under hand/AND THERE/where thoughts glide." ... Read more

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Mysterious Gelatinous Seagiants
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from the dustjacket
" ... Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence ... "- Robert Creeley ... Read more

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This four volume collection presents the first four years of SPARROW, the literary broadsheet published monthly through the years by Black Sparrow Press, beginning in October 1972 through September 1976. The individual issues average 16 pages each, each issue the work of an individual authjor, and are bound in order in volumes which were issued in 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976. ... Read more

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Camping Wyoming is a new one-of-a-kindguidebook to camping options on the way, by the way andout-of-the-way in Wyoming. It includes over 400 camps(private, forest service, BLM, Game and Fish, city, county, etc.) ofwhich 135 areas (with 1000's of campsites) are free. There are 87hand-drawn maps and detailed directions with mileage to one-tenth of amile. It is not a how-to book. It is a single source of informationand direction for car camping in Wyoming. ... Read more

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Disappointment
The book was little more than a list.The hand drawn maps were amaturish in this day and age.It was lacking in information.Maybe I was spoiled by the "100 Best And All The Rest" book I had just purchased on Colorado campgrounds. Camping Wyoming was a waste of money.

Just what I was looking for
I was searching for a book that would tell me the information that would be most useful in searching for just the right camp site... This book has it... very informative and easy to understand without a lot of uselessdrivel... I wish it were available for Idaho! ... Read more