Quotes About Michael McClure

"One of our best and wisest bard/scholars. McClure's thinking is brave, obdurate, passionate complex." — Anne Waldman

"McClure's poetry is a blob of protoplasmic energy." — Allen Ginsberg

"A flashpoint at the intersection of the spiritual and the real." — Lewis Mac Adams, L.A. Weekly

"Michael McClure shares a place with the great William Blake, with the visionary Shelley, with the passionate D.H. Lawrence..." — Robert Creeley

"What appeals to me most about Michael's poems is the fury and imagery of them..." — Francis Crick, discoverer of the DNA double helix

"This poetry is soulful freedom at play in the Desire-realm..." — Gary Snyder

"Without McClure's roar there would have been no Sixties." — Dennis Hopper

"Michael McClure's poetry and prose is one of the more remarkable achievements in recent American literature." — The London Times Literary Supplement

"There is no one like Michael McClure." — Diane di Prima

"McClure is grounded in an informed Zen mode of perception, focused at ease within the moment." — Robert Hunter

"As the vocabulary of freedom becomes day by day more thickly encrusted with the shit of American foreign policy, it's salutary to hear the voice of Michael McClure, a poet who (for fifty years in print) has explored states of freedom with candor and athletic intelligence. He writes poetry with acute eyes and ears, translating critical observation into precisely tempered verbal notations, celebrating the animal body and human consciousness growing out from it. He's an expert reader too, with an actor's voice, sensual and attuned finely to cadence and energies of enunciation. And he's learned from musicians. As his Beat associate Jack Kerouac might have noted, McClure knows time..." — WIRE magazine, from a review of the CD I Like your Eyes Liberty

"The most fantastic poem in America..." — Jack Kerouac (writing about McClure's long poem Dark Brown)