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- catalog abstract "The running theme in Michael McClure's Simple Eyes & Other Poems is: looking at the world directly. The results are often as disquieting as they are illuminating, whether he directs his unblinking gaze on the American cityscape, the landscapes of Mexico and Kenya, or the mind's own terrain. In the long title poem, "Simple Eyes (Fields)," the stanzas on the Persian Gulf War bloom out of images of all wars the poet has known - "the spiritual wars, the napalm and cordite and nuclear wars, and the war against nature"--And become a kind of spiritual autobiography. At the heart of the poetry is McClure's return to the ancient concept of agnosia, the idea of knowing through unknowing, as a way of living in desperate times, in which deep human or humane feelings have almost become outlaw. Simple Eyes is an outspoken poet's statement, unsentimental, yet with mind and eye quickened by love.".
- catalog alternative "Simple eyes and other poems.".
- catalog contributor b6280872.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Spirit's Desperado -- Cream Hidden -- The Last Waltz -- Old Warhols -- Writing to You from Seattle -- Mexico Seen from the Moving Car -- The Butterfly -- Quetzalcoatl Song -- Reading Frank O'Hara in a Mexican Rainstorm -- Mirroring Flame in the Fireplace -- Foreword -- Fields 1-9 -- A -- B -- Fields 10-13 -- The Foam -- Grieved Skull -- Edge Chunk -- Summer Hummingbird -- Hotel Santa Monica -- Haiku of the Hunt -- Brain Damage -- Lies! -- Gorgeousness -- To Robert Creeley (One) -- To Robert Creeley (Two) -- Haikus -- Through the Bars -- Spontaneous Poem Beginning with Lines from the Tao Te Ching -- Senate Hearings -- The Cheetah -- Old Eyes -- Near Mount Kenya -- Thoughts on Travel and Art -- At Noon by the Red-Brown River -- Christmas Morning in Samburu -- Leaving the Fairview Hotel -- American Dream -- Cowboy -- Moment's Muse -- Red Cages -- Boulder Hill.".
- catalog description "The running theme in Michael McClure's Simple Eyes & Other Poems is: looking at the world directly. The results are often as disquieting as they are illuminating, whether he directs his unblinking gaze on the American cityscape, the landscapes of Mexico and Kenya, or the mind's own terrain. In the long title poem, "Simple Eyes (Fields)," the stanzas on the Persian Gulf War bloom out of images of all wars the poet has known - "the spiritual wars, the napalm and cordite and nuclear wars, and the war against nature"--And become a kind of spiritual autobiography. At the heart of the poetry is McClure's return to the ancient concept of agnosia, the idea of knowing through unknowing, as a way of living in desperate times, in which deep human or humane feelings have almost become outlaw. Simple Eyes is an outspoken poet's statement, unsentimental, yet with mind and eye quickened by love.".
- catalog extent "viii, 134 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0811212653".
- catalog isPartOf "New Directions paperbook ; 780".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Directions Pub.,".
- catalog subject "811/.54 20".
- catalog subject "PS3563.A262 S5 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Spirit's Desperado -- Cream Hidden -- The Last Waltz -- Old Warhols -- Writing to You from Seattle -- Mexico Seen from the Moving Car -- The Butterfly -- Quetzalcoatl Song -- Reading Frank O'Hara in a Mexican Rainstorm -- Mirroring Flame in the Fireplace -- Foreword -- Fields 1-9 -- A -- B -- Fields 10-13 -- The Foam -- Grieved Skull -- Edge Chunk -- Summer Hummingbird -- Hotel Santa Monica -- Haiku of the Hunt -- Brain Damage -- Lies! -- Gorgeousness -- To Robert Creeley (One) -- To Robert Creeley (Two) -- Haikus -- Through the Bars -- Spontaneous Poem Beginning with Lines from the Tao Te Ching -- Senate Hearings -- The Cheetah -- Old Eyes -- Near Mount Kenya -- Thoughts on Travel and Art -- At Noon by the Red-Brown River -- Christmas Morning in Samburu -- Leaving the Fairview Hotel -- American Dream -- Cowboy -- Moment's Muse -- Red Cages -- Boulder Hill.".
- catalog title "Simple eyes & other poems / Michael McClure.".
- catalog title "Simple eyes and other poems.".
- catalog type "text".