Rest In Peace, Beat Poet Michael McClure
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Legendary Beat Poet Michael McClure has passed away at age 87. I had the very good fortune of seeing Michael McClure read poetry with The Doors' Ray Manzarek backing him on keyboards at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in the 90s. Also on that Bill was Robert Hunter backed by Tom Constanten. Diane Di Prima also read that night. It was quite an amazing evening. Rest In Peace, Michael, Ray, & Robert... <3 <3 <3
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Not too many Beats left;
Not too many Beats left; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder. The Wooden Ships are sailing.
R.I.P. Mr. McClure
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Point Lobos: Animism
Point Lobos: Animism
It is possible my friend
If I have had a fat belly
That the wolf lives on fat
Gnawing slowly
Through a visceral night of rancor.
It is possible that the absense of pain
May be so great
That the possibility of care
May be impossible.
Perhaps to know pain.
Anxiety, rather than the fear
Of the fear of anxiety.
This talk of miracles!
Of Animism:
I have been in a spot so full of spirits
That even the most joyful animist
Brooded
When all in sight was less to be cared about
Than death
And there was no noise in the ears
That mattered.
(I knelt in the shade
By a cold salt pool
And felt the entrance of hate
On many legs,
The soul like a clambering
Water vascular system.
No scuttling could matter
Yet I formed in my mind
The most beautiful
Of maxims.
How could I care
For your illness or mine?)
This talk of bodies!
It is impossible to speak
Of lupine or tulips
When one may read
His name
Spelled by the mold on the stumps
When the forest moves about one.
Heel. Nostril.
Light. Light! Light!
This is the bird's song
You may tell it
to your children.
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Somehow avoided the news for
Somehow avoided the news for a couple of weeks.
RIP Michael McClure - One of the Great Poets of ANY School or Era.
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Diane di Prima is also still
Diane di Prima is also still with us...
RIP Mr. McClure.