The New Book: A Book of Torture

by Michael McClure

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1961

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Dani Fino · Rating 4 out of 5]

Soy 103 preguntas y 0 respuestas, gran gran libro (necesaria relectura)