{"product_id":"ghost-tantras-9780872866270","title":"Ghost Tantras","description":"\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 \u003cem\u003eHowl\u003c\/em\u003e, he was immortalized by Jack Kerouac in his novel \u003cem\u003eBig Sur\u003c\/em\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, \u003cem\u003eGhost Tantras\u003c\/em\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.\" \u003cem\u003eGhost Tantras\u003c\/em\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872866270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 5.30w x 0.50d","brand":"Michael McClure","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44848907485365,"sku":"9780872866270","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_53486ec6-8b26-4e8b-94f1-58d6c2d0be42.jpg?v=1732634225","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ghost-tantras-9780872866270","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}