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A collection of poetry. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a poem sequence, it includes the poems that are grounded in imagination and a profound regard for the natural world. It reveals a close kinship to Romanticism, Modernism, Surrealism, and Japanese haiku.

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"Like Philip Whalen, Charles Bukowski, and Jim Morrison (to whom one section is dedicated), McClure infuses ecstatic direct address and colloquial diction with an exquisite sensibility." Publishers Weekly "McClure's poetry seems as vital to the 21st century as it was to the 20th." Library Journal "A young reader can be inspired by McClure's radical questioning of the established social order at every turn... McClure, among all the Beat poets, is perhaps the softest, most tender, most yielding." San Francisco Chronicle

Of Indigo and Saffron New and Selected Poems

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 26 January 2011
      ISBN-13 9780520272736
      978-0520272736
      ISBN-10 0520272730

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of poetry. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a poem sequence, it includes the poems that are grounded in imagination and a profound regard for the natural world. It reveals a close kinship to Romanticism, Modernism, Surrealism, and Japanese haiku.

      Trade Review
      "Like Philip Whalen, Charles Bukowski, and Jim Morrison (to whom one section is dedicated), McClure infuses ecstatic direct address and colloquial diction with an exquisite sensibility." Publishers Weekly "McClure's poetry seems as vital to the 21st century as it was to the 20th." Library Journal "A young reader can be inspired by McClure's radical questioning of the established social order at every turn... McClure, among all the Beat poets, is perhaps the softest, most tender, most yielding." San Francisco Chronicle

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