{"product_id":"huge-dreams-isbn-9780140589177","title":"Huge Dreams","description":"\u003cb\u003eHuge Dreams\u003c\/b\u003e republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, which together are a cornerstone of the Beat movement: \u003cb\u003eThe New Book\/A Book of Torture and Star\u003c\/b\u003e. Both were influential in expanding poetry into a larger world:the West Coast Beat phenomena, which focused on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. With these books Michael McClure brought an animal energy and a knowledge of art and physical human nature that was new to the scene.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Book\/A Book of Torture\u003c\/b\u003e was written spontaneously while McClure was in a \"dark night of the soul\" brought on by psychedelics.  A single long poem of experience and exploration, it offers the means of liberation from the darkness it examines. Star is a wide-ranging book of chalice seeking, spiritual discovery, and political protest, grounded in the emotions and sensations of eros and play.\u003c\/p\u003eHuge DreamsIntroduction by Robert  Creeley: \"In Dreams Begin Responsibilities . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Book\/A Book of Torture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpigraph\u003cbr\u003eOde to Jackson Pollock\u003cbr\u003eFor Jack Kerouac\/The Chamber\u003cbr\u003eDeep Cloud\u003cbr\u003eOde on the End of Jazz\u003cbr\u003eFor Charles Olson\u003cbr\u003eA Fantasy and Courtly Poem\u003cbr\u003eOde for Soft Voice\u003cbr\u003eFragment of a Hymn\u003cbr\u003eLines from  a Peyote Depression\u003cbr\u003eThe Room\u003cbr\u003eThe Strain\u003cbr\u003eYes Table\u003cbr\u003eFor Artaud\u003cbr\u003eRant Block\u003cbr\u003eThe Column\u003cbr\u003eL'Étoile, The Star\u003cbr\u003eThe Flowers of Politics, One\u003cbr\u003eThe Flowers of Politics, Two\u003cbr\u003eA Small Secret Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e1. For Philip Lamantia\u003cbr\u003e2. Oh Christ God\u003cbr\u003e3. The Shark Is the Lamb\u003cbr\u003e4. Oh Christ Oh God\u003cbr\u003e5. For Thelonious Monk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Cool Pamphlet\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOde to the Rose\u003cbr\u003eFor Jane\u003cbr\u003eBlue Rose\u003cbr\u003ePollen\u003cbr\u003eLa Plus Blanche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13 Mad Sonnets\u003cbr\u003eFor an Unknown Melody\u003cbr\u003eNovember's Texas Song\u003cbr\u003eSmall Ode on the Need to Drink\u003cbr\u003eA Rose\u003cbr\u003eThe Lion-Beams\u003cbr\u003eThe Purple One\u003cbr\u003eLove \u0026amp; Strength\u003cbr\u003eThe Pansy\u003cbr\u003eOde to the Negative Universe\u003cbr\u003eValentine's Day Sonnet\u003cbr\u003eSonnet\u003cbr\u003eMad Sonnet\u003cbr\u003eMad Sonnet\u003cbr\u003eThe Child\u003cbr\u003eUnder the Black Trees\u003cbr\u003eThe Surge\u003cbr\u003eA Thought\u003cbr\u003eThe Answer\u003cbr\u003eThe Human Face\u003cbr\u003eA Thought\u003cbr\u003eThere Is Not Passion Enough\u003cbr\u003eLove Lion Book\u003cbr\u003eDrunk Variation\u003cbr\u003eGrahr Mantra\u003cbr\u003ePoisoned Wheat\u003cbr\u003eFor Kenneth Anger\u003cbr\u003eOverpop\u003cbr\u003eVariation\u003cbr\u003eMantra\u003cbr\u003eWilliam H. Bonney: Billy the Kid\u003cbr\u003eCupid's Grin\u003cbr\u003eMatter\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sermons of Jean Harlow\u003c\/i\u003e \u0026amp; The Curses of Billy the Kid\u003cbr\u003eViet Nam Song\u003cbr\u003eLiberation\u003cbr\u003eAfter Thoughts\u003c\/p\u003eMichael McClure has published novels, interviews, essays, and plays. In recent years he has performed his poetry in collaboration with the Doors keyboardist, Ray Manzarek.\u003cb\u003eMATTER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMATTER IS ALIVE, BY GOD\u003cbr\u003eMATTER IS ALIVE!\u003cbr\u003eThe grains of crystal slide.\u003cbr\u003eIt is the molecular consciousness!\u003cbr\u003e((I must be a Pagan\u003cbr\u003eto survive it\u003cbr\u003e?TO SURVIVE\u003cbr\u003ethis vision.\u003cbr\u003eWith grinning teeth!))\u003cbr\u003eIt takes its shape.\u003cbr\u003eFanatic Will.\u003cbr\u003eDripping. Pouring. Pressing.\u003cbr\u003eHAH!\u003c\/i\u003eCopyright ? 1998 Penguin Putnam Inc. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303546310885,"sku":"NP9780140589177","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140589177.jpg?v=1767729513","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/huge-dreams-isbn-9780140589177","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}