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Michael McClure

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born

October 20, 1932 in Marysville, KS, The United States

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Poetry

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Michael McClure (born October 20, 1932 in Marysville, Kansas) is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and is immortalized as "Pat McLear" in Kerouac's Big Sur.

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Average rating: 3.90 · 491 ratings · 42 reviews · 63 distinct works

	Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac by Michael McClure, Larry Keenan (Photographer) 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Three Poems by Michael McClure, Robert Hunter (Introduction) 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Rain Mirror: New Poems 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The Beard; [a Play] 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1967	My rating:
	Ghost Tantras 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1969	My rating:
	Rebel Lions 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	Antechamber, and Other Poems 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1978	My rating:
	Meat Science Essays 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1963	My rating:
	Fragments of Perseus 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1983	My rating: