Readers of Michael McClure\"s play Gorf may be reminded of Alfred Jarry\"s LJbu Roi, even if dancing TV sets and the \\\"Middle American\\\" protagonists Mert and Gert bring the surreal effect down to native ground. On another level, Gorf is a ritual of regeneration, or, if you like, a kind of spiritualized Hellzapoppin....

\\\"Perhaps the crux of all writing is to find the word that describes what the eye has seen and the mind imagined\\\", says Josephson Nicholson in Rolling Stone. \\\"Judged on that basis, Michael McClure\"s… most recent books are as good as anything going. Their advantage is Sheer Scope\\\"....

This essential collection of Michael McClure\'s poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years....