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Fragments of Perseus - Poetry (Paperback)
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Fragments of Perseus - Poetry (Paperback)
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Loot Price R342
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"NOW IT IS TIME FOR A NATION,/ a spiritual Nation/based/and formed
on open freedom,/on flesh and biology..." The antipolitical
activism, biologically based aesthetics, and exuberantly sensuous
spirituality that have won Michael McClure acclaim since the birth
of the San Francisco poetry renaissance in 1955 are affirmed with
new range and eloquence in Fragments of Perseus. The title poem
presents fragments of an imaginary journal by Perseus, son of Zeus
and Danae, slayer of the snake-haired Medusa, and husband of
Andromeda. With "The Death of Kim Chuen Louie," we move from myth
to reportage, ancient Greece to modern San Francisco's Chinatown,
where the poet has come upon a murder. Following are "Baja Bundle,"
six poems composed under the spell of travel through Baja
California, Mexico, as well as invocations, proclamations, love
poems, and dream narratives. Radiating symmetrically from a central
axis, McClure's poems spiral across the page with the grace of
organisms. As Aram Saroyan has noted, "he sees poetry itself as a
'muscular principle--an athletic song or whisper of fleshly
thought,' and in his poems he is able to make his vision
compelling."
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