{"product_id":"9780872866270","title":"Ghost Tantras","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Michael McClure:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence.\"—Robert Creeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McClure's poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy.\"—Allen Ginsberg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Without McClure's roar there would have been no Sixties.\"—Dennis Hopper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael McClure is a living legend. One of the poets who participated in the famous Six Gallery reading that featured the public debut of Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e, he was immortalized by Jack Kerouac in his novel \u003ci\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/i\u003e. A central figure of the Beat Generation, McClure collaborated with Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner and was later associated with San Francisco's psychedelic counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally self-published in 1964 and long out of print, \u003ci\u003eGhost Tantras\u003c\/i\u003e is one of McClure's signature works, a book mostly written in \"beast language.\" A mix of lyrical, guttural, and laryngeal sound, lion roars, and a touch of detonated dada, this is one of his best-known but least available books, a deep well from which decades of poetry have drawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcClure's inspiration has always been the animal consciousness that still lives in mankind, and he has had a consistent message: \"When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal.\" \u003ci\u003eGhost Tantras\u003c\/i\u003e is his original and singular manifesto for a poetry that relies not on images and pictures, but on muscular, sensual, energetic sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e has received numerous awards and continues to reach new audiences through his poetry, plays, and performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012437000432,"sku":"9780872866270","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872866270_p0.jpg?v=1763835828","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872866270","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}