WHAT NERVE IT TAKES
to realize how hideous
AND
GLORIOUS
this life
is:
life eating life,
and the lapis lazuli kingfisher
hovers
over
the
crystal
pool
as we float on a sea
of petroleum
"The role model for Jim Morrison," as the Los Angeles Times characterized Michael McClure, has found sources in music from Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis to the composer Terry Riley, with whom his poetry performances frequently share a bill. In 2005 McClure joined with Riley to create a CD titled I Like Your Eyes Liberty, an exploration of spontaneous music and voice expressing the outrageous and mystical in both artists.
Two collections of McClure's poems are being published: Mysteriosos and other Poems (New Directions, 2010) and the upcoming Of Indigo and Saffron: Selected and New Poems (University of California Press, 2011).
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