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NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING: Big Bridge publishes letters of McClure and Brakhage →
Big Bridge has published The Flame is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961–1978. Large portions of it can be read on the big bridge website, where it includes photographs and notations. Poet Michael McClure is one of the pre-eminant beat-era poets and is…
This is SO INCREDIBLY EPIC. I don’t understand how this flew under my radar.
I almost want to buy a digital book reader just to sit down and devour this text… If it wasn’t so damn late I’d stay up and read it now…
333 pages of Correspondences between Michael McClure and Stan Brakhage… Get out of here… All downloadable for free on the Big Bridge website that’s linked above…
The Poetry Foundation quotes a letter from this text from McClure to Brakhage:
“Bob Dylan bought me an autoharp & he wants me to sing & sing my new (unwritten) poem-songs. He is beautiful—a Marilyn Monroe of a man—and you would dig him. Ginsberg & I went to 5 of his concerts & sat up all nite talking with him several nites. And I got to meet Joan Baez. Baez is your spiritual female double—though I did not tell her so. I felt so natural & relaxed with her because she reminds me of you. I was able to pat her foot & smile at her. She is all balanced love. Jesus I hope the U.S. does not hit China—Boom! Boom! Then it is the concentration camp for me, us, whoever. When I read “History” I realize such an act is not at all “out of line.” I hope History has ended!!! We have put our queer shoulders to the wheel & there is not much left to do! Shall we become HUMAN Gods? With the human in caps.
Regarding your fainting when you opened [Kenneth Anger’s] Blue Velvet Wipeout—Casey a chick here—friend of mine and Kenneth’s—she fainted first time she saw Fireworks and woke up with Ken reviving her. Claims it was Kenneth made her faint. Though Kenneth denies it she says. Could that be a secret talent of Kenneth’s?” Woah.
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SO INCREDIBLY EPIC. I don’t understand how this flew under my radar. I almost want to buy a digital book reader just to...
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