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Break On Through to the Other Side Michael McClure was born in 1932 in Marysville, Kansas, and shared Kansas roots with other figures connected with the Beats such as writer Charles Plymell and actor Dennis Hopper. McClure was a classmate at Wichita High School of founder of the Auerhahn Press of San Francisco Dave Haselwood, and artist Bruce Conner. As a young man, McClure read widely in Emmanuel Swedenborg, Charles Baudelaire, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, and Rainer Maria Rilke, discovering William Blake at seventeen and composing poems in Blake's style.1 Like Allen Ginsberg, who as we have seen in chapter 6 experienced a mystical vision of Blake in Harlem in 1948, as an adolescent McClure also "dreamed I was Blake. Blake seemed as real a presence as an automobile. "2 In his novel The Mad Cub, McClure recalls: "I dream I am William Blake . . . I have a long white beard. "3 In early 1955, McClure met Ginsberg at a party in San Francisco for W. H. Auden at Ruth Witt-Diamant's, and McClure noted that one of Ginsberg's "gifts" to him during this period was "showing me the stanzas of Mexico City Blues that Jack was sending him in 1955. "4 Kerouac included McClure in his va

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN