A report on Michael McClure
American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist.
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Beat Generation
6 linksLiterary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Ginsberg and Gary Snyder read on October 7, 1955, before 100 people (including Kerouac, up from Mexico City).
Six Gallery reading
3 linksImportant poetry event that took place on Friday, October 7, 1955, at 3119 Fillmore Street in San Francisco.
Important poetry event that took place on Friday, October 7, 1955, at 3119 Fillmore Street in San Francisco.
At the reading, five talented young poets—Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen—who until then were known mainly within a close company of friends and other writers (such as Lionel Trilling and William Carlos Williams), presented some of their latest works.
Counterculture of the 1960s
5 linksAnti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s.
Anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s.
Michael McClure (born 1932) (poet)
Jim Morrison
3 linksAmerican singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors.
American singer, poet and songwriter who was the lead vocalist of the rock band the Doors.
Morrison befriended Beat poet Michael McClure, who wrote the afterword for Jerry Hopkins' biography of Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive.
Peter Fonda
2 linksAmerican actor.
American actor.
He took the lead role in a cast that also featured Warren Oates, Verna Bloom and Beat Generation poet Michael McClure.
Janis Joplin
3 linksAmerican singer and musician.
American singer and musician.
It was there that she first performed "Mercedes Benz", a song (partially inspired by a Michael McClure poem) that she had composed with fellow musician and friend Bob Neuwirth a very short time earlier.
Mercedes Benz (song)
1 links"Mercedes Benz" is an a cappella song written by the American singer Janis Joplin with Bob Neuwirth, and the poet Michael McClure.
Ray Manzarek
2 linksAmerican keyboardist and singer.
American keyboardist and singer.
He recorded a rock adaptation of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (1983; co-produced by Philip Glass), briefly played with Iggy Pop, sat in on one track on the eponymous 1987 album Echo & the Bunnymen, backed San Francisco poet Michael McClure's poetry readings and worked on improvisational compositions with poet Michael C. Ford.
The Dharma Bums
2 links1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.
1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac.
At the event, other authors including Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, Michael McClure, and Philip Whalen also performed."Anyway I followed the whole gang of howling poets to the reading at Gallery Six that night, which was, among other important things, the night of the birth of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance. Everyone was there. It was a mad night. And I was the one who got things jumping by going around collecting dimes and quarters from the rather stiff audience standing around in the gallery and coming back with three huge gallon jugs of California Burgundy and getting them all piffed so that by eleven o'clock when Alvah Goldbook was reading his poem 'Wail' drunk with arms outspread everybody was yelling 'Go! Go! Go!' (like a jam session) and old Rheinhold Cacoethes the father of the Frisco poetry scene was wiping his tears in gladness."
Human Be-In
1 linksEvent held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967.
Event held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, 1967.
They included Timothy Leary in his first San Francisco appearance, who set the tone that afternoon with his famous phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out" and Richard Alpert (soon to be known as "Ram Dass"), and poets like Allen Ginsberg, who chanted mantras, Gary Snyder and Michael McClure.