Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American

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, and

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. After moving to

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as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including

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) who read at the famous

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in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in

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's ''

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''. He soon became a key member of the

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and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's ''

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''.

Career overview

Educated at the Municipal University of Wichita (1951–1953), the

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(1953-1954) and San Francisco State College (

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, 1955) McClure's first book of poetry, ''Passage'', was published in 1956 by small press publisher Jonathan Williams.

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, a friend of McClure, stated in the ''

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'' that:

McClure always, and more and more as he grows older, gives his reader access to the verbal impulses of his whole body's thought (as distinct from simply and only brain-think, as it is with most who write). He invents a form for the cellular messages of his, a form which will feel as if it were organic on the page; and he sticks with it across his life ...

McClure published eight books of plays and four collections of essays, including essays on

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and the environment. His fourteen books of poetry include ''Jaguar Skies'', ''Dark Brown'', ''Huge Dreams'', ''Rebel Lions'', ''Rain Mirror'' and ''Plum Stones''. McClure famously read selections of his ''Ghost Tantra'' poetry series to the caged lions in the

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. His work as a novelist includes the autobiographical ''The Mad Cub'' and ''The Adept''. On January 14, 1967, McClure read at the

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event in

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in San Francisco and later became an important member of the 1960s

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referred to him as "the prince of the San Francisco scene". McClure later courted controversy as a playwright with his play ''The Beard''. The play tells of a fictional encounter between

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and

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and is a theatrical exploration of his "Meat Politics" theory, in which all human beings are "bags of meat". McClure's other plays include ''Josephine The Mouse Singer'' and ''VKTMS''. He had an eleven-year run as playwright-in-residence with San Francisco's

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where his operetta "Minnie Mouse and the Tap-Dancing Buddha" had an extended run. He made two television documentaries – ''The Maze'' and ''September Blackberries'' – and was featured in several films, including

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's ''

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'' (1978), where he recites from ''

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'';

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's '' Beyond the Law'' (1968); and, most prominently,

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's '' The Hired Hand'' (1971). McClure was a close friend of

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' lead singer

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and is generally acknowledged as having been responsible for promoting Morrison as a poet. McClure performed

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poetry concerts with Doors keyboardist

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until the latter's death in 2013; several albums of their work have been released. McClure also contributed the afterword to ''

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'', Jerry Hopkins's and

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's seminal Doors biography. McClure also released albums of his work with minimalist composer

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. McClure's songs include "

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", popularized by

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, and new songs which were performed by Riders on the Storm, a band that consisted of Manzarek and Doors guitarist

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. McClure's journalism has been featured in ''

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'', ''

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,'' the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. He received numerous awards, including a

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, an

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for Best Play, an NEA grant, the

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Award and a Rockefeller grant for playwriting. In addition, he was inducted into the San Francisco State University Alumni Hall of Fame in 2014. McClure remained active as a poet, essayist and playwright until his death and lived with his second wife, Amy, in the

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. He had one daughter from his first marriage to Joanna McClure.

''The Beard''

''The Beard'' is a notably controversial modern play that explores the nature of seduction and attraction, portraying an explosive confrontation between two legendary figures: Jean Harlow, the platinum blonde movie star, and Billy the Kid, the baby-faced outlaw with a hair trigger. They are attracted to each other, but their egos get in the way. She mocks his masculinity, and he tells her she is envious of his beauty. This battle diminishes as they realize that since they are alone together, they are free to shed their burdening facades and give in to what they are truly feeling. The torrent of their unleashed passions leads to a final scene of great controversy, as the play comes to a climax with an act of explicit sexual intimacy between the cowboy and the starlet. McClure said that he was inspired to write the play by a vision that came to him of a poster advertising a boxing match between Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid. Before he began to write, he went to the printer that created boxing posters in San Francisco and had the poster of his vision printed up. Then, he said, "I put the poster up on fences, windows, and in liquor stores where boxing posters would be, and put one up behind my head in the room I worked in at the time, which overlooked the bridge and the ocean. I could feel the presence of Billy the Kid and Jean Harlow broadcasting from the beautiful poster to the back of my head out towards the ocean. They began enacting the play and I began typing it up. They'd say a few pages, I just typed it. I thought it was a nature poem about mammal sexuality and mammal love. It could have been a tantric ritual." McClure happened to meet British playwright,

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, who then gave words of support to the play, which helped it become noticed and gave courage to those who staged its first production in San Francisco in 1965. It debuted at the Actor's Workshop Theatre in

on the December 18, 1965. A second performance followed at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium on the July 24, 1966. With the Fillmore's high profile, the play attracted an audience of 700. After success at the Fillmore, the following month the play opened at The Committee, a theatre nightclub in the North Beach area of the city, where it was hoped it would enjoy a lengthy run. Now aware of the play's controversial elements, the San Francisco Police Department secretly tape-recorded the first two performances and secretly filmed the third performance. Having failed in their attempts to censor

's '' Howl'', the performances of

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and the

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, the police department was intent to succeed this time. At the end of that third performance on August 8, 1966—only the fifth time the play had been performed in public—the San Francisco Police Department raided the venue and arrested actors Billie Dixon (Jean) and Richard Bright (Billy). Under ''Penal Code Section 647(a)'' the pair were initially charged with "obscenity", then "conspiracy to commit a felony" and ultimately with "lewd or dissolute conduct in a public place". The

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took the case and represented the actors. Twelve days after the arrests, the play was performed at The Florence Schwimley Little Theatre, in Berkeley. The audience included more than a hundred ACLU-invited expert witnesses, including political activists, academics, writers and even members of the clergy. Seven members of the

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and the

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's office were also present. Five days later, the city of Berkeley brought its own charges of "lewd or dissolute conduct" against the play. It became a theatrical ''cause célèbre'', until finally, after months of legal deliberation, Judge Joseph Karesh of the San Francisco Superior Court ruled that while the play did contain material of a troublesome nature, it was not appropriate to prosecute such work under the law. All the charges were dropped and the subsequent appeal lost. Unable to perform in the San Francisco area, the play moved to Los Angeles, where the play's attempt at a run was disrupted by the arrest of both Dixon and Bright at curtain down of fourteen consecutive performances. McClure recalled, "The actor and the actress actually got two standing ovations, one at the end of the play and the second when the police hauled them out of the door and into the waiting wagon and took them off to book them." ''The Beard'' eventually transferred to New York where at the 1967–1968 Obie Theatre Awards, it won Best Director and Best Actress. It has since played successfully all over the world and is a favorite with American university drama groups. The play has enjoyed particular success in London, having been produced there twice. In 1968, actor

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directed a notable production at The Royal Court Theatre and it has most recently been revived at a smaller venue, the

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in 2006 under the direction of Nic Saunders with new music by Terry Riley. The play is currently out of print in both the US and UK. Saunders would collaborate with McClure a second time in 2008 on the award-winning short film ''Curses and Sermons'', which would mark the first time McClure had authorized a filmed adaptation of one of his poems.

California College of Arts and Crafts

McClure was a popular, celebrated professor of English at the

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(now renamed California College of the Arts), in

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, for many years.

Death

McClure died of

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-related complications on May 4, 2020, in

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, aged 87.

Bibliography

* ''Passage'' (1956) * ''For Artaud'' (1959) * ''Hymns to St. Geryon and Other Poems'' (1959) * ''The New Book/A Book of Torture'' (1961) * ''Dark Brown'' (1961) * ''Meat Science Essays'' (1963) * ''The Blossom; or Billy the Kid'' (1964) * ''Ghost Tantras'' (1964) * ''The Beard'' (1965) * ''Poisoned Wheat'' (1965) * ''Unto Caesar'' (1965) * ''Love Lion Book'' (1966) * ''Freewheelin Frank'' (with Frank Reynolds) (1967) * ''The Sermons of Jean Harlow and the Curses of Billy the Kid'' (1968) * ''Hail Thee Who Play'' (1968) * ''Muscled Apple Swift'' (1968) * ''Little Odes and The Raptors'' (1969) * ''The Surge'' (1969) * ''Star'' (1970) * ''The Mad Cub'' (1970) * ''The Adept'' (1971) * ''Gargoyle Cartoons'' (1971) * ''The Mammals'' – includes The Feast, The Blossom; or, Billy the Kid, and Pillow (1972) * ''The Book of Joanna'' (1973) * ''Solstice Blossom'' (1973) * ''The Grabbing of the Fairy'' (1973) * ''Rare Angel'' (1974) * ''A Fist-Full'' (1956–57) (1974) * ''Gorf'' (1974) * ''September Blackberries'' (1974) * ''Jaguar Skies'' (1975) * ''Antechamber & Other Poems'' (1978) * ''Josephine: The Mouse Singer'' (1980) * ''Scratching the Beat Surface'' (1982) * ''Fragments of Perseus'' (1983) * ''Specks'' (1985) * ''Rebel Lions'' (1991) * ''Lighting the Corners'' (1994) * ''Three Poems'' - includes Dark Brown, Rare Angel, Dolphin Skull (1995) * ''Huge Dreams'' (1999) * ''Rain Mirror'' (1999) * ''Touching the Edge'' (1999) * ''The Last American Valentine: Illustrated poems to seduce and destroy'' –

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anthology (2008) * ''Mysteriosos and Other Poems'' (2010) * ''Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems'' (2011) * ''Mephistos and Other Poems'' (

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, 2016) . * ''Persian Pony'' (Ekstasis Editions, 2017). * ''Mule Kick Blues, And Last Poems'' (

, 2021 .

Selected filmography

* ''Two'' (1965) – as himself * ''Be In'' (1967) – as himself * ''Beyond The Law'' (1968) – as actor * ''The Hired Hand'' (1971) – as actor * ''The Last Waltz'' (1978) – as himself * ''The Source'' (1999) – as himself * ''Love Her Madly'' (2002) – as himself * ''The Third Mind'' (2006) – as himself * ''Curses and Sermons'' (2008) – based on his work

References

External links

*
Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek official website

Michael McClure Selected Bibliography
*
Guide to the Michael McClure Papers
at

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*
"Add-Verse" a poetry-photo-video project McClure participated in

* [http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/2011_BB_15_FEATURES/Luna_McClure_Brakhage_Feature/THE_FLAME_IS_OURS.pdf ''The Flame is Ours The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961–1978'' Edited by Christopher Luna] a
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