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Title: Michael McClure (Boise State University Western Writers Series, No. 159) by Rod Phillips ISBN: 0-88430-159-1 Publisher: Boise State University Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95

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Rating: 4
Summary: Keen and readable criticism
Comment: This highly readable and keen account should appeal to scholar and student alike. If you're already a fan of McClure's, I say read this book, if only to learn why the poet always uses so many CAPITAL LETTERS.

For those of you who don't know McClure well, let me tell you briefly about this fine study on him. Michael McClure's artistic career began as one of the poets at the famous Six Gallery reading in 1955 with other Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder (Jack Kerouac was in the audience). Since then, over the last 50 years, Michael McClure has gone on to write poetry, plays, and polemics--and he's made music with Janis Joplin and Ray Mazarek of the Doors. A true artist!

The author of this study, Rod Phillips, is a university professor, who has written another book on the Beats as proto-environmentalists that I've also read and found very convincing (I teach college as well). In this latest effort, Phillips locates McClure in several literary, philosophical and scientific traditions, including, to use McClure's own term, "mammalian" tradition. Moreover, Phillips does an excellent job creating a sense of the effect upheavals like the Vietnam War had on McClure's work and what he in turn did to influence the art and politics of the day.