Michael McClure





Michael McClure

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

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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.


Average rating: 3.90 · 491 ratings · 42 reviews · 63 distinct works
Scratching the Beat Surface...
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Three Poems
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1995
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Huge Dreams: San Francisco ...
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999
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Rain Mirror: New Poems
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1999
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The Beard; [a Play]
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1967
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Ghost Tantras
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1969
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Rebel Lions
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1991
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Antechamber, and Other Poems
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1978
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Meat Science Essays
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1963
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Fragments of Perseus
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1983
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