Conversations with Michael McClure

David Stephen Calonne is senior lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. He is author of several works, including R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self, published by University Press of Mississippi; William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being; The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats; Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions; The Beats in Mexico; and biographies of Charles Bukowski and Henry Miller. Calonne is also editor of five volumes of uncollected Bukowski stories and essays as well as Conversations with Gary Snyder, Conversations with Allen Ginsberg, and Conversations with Diane di Prima, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Introduction Chronology Six San Francisco Poets: Snyder, Whalen, Michael McClure, Meltzer, Ferlinghetti, Antoninus David Kherdian / 1969 Gahr, Groooor, Grayohh: For a Meat Poetry-An Interview with Michael McClure Roland Husson / 1973 Michael McClure Interview David Rollison / 1976 An Interview with Michael McClure Stephen Vincent / 1977 A Conversation with Michael McClure Kevin Power / 1978 Interview with Michael McClure Inger Thorup Lauridsen and Per Dalgard / 1983 Poetry Wars: An Interview with Michael McClure Barry Miles / 1986 An Interview with Michael McClure S. E. Gontarski / 1990 An Interview with Michael McClure Steve Luttrell / 1994 Craft Interview with Michael McClure New York Quarterly / 1995 "What Are Souls?": An Interview with Michael McClure Jack Foley / 2001 Realm Buster: Stan Brakhage Steve Anker / 2001 Artists on the Cutting Edge: Michael McClure Delivers a Passion for Poetry George Varga / 2001 Interview with Michael McClure Sergio Cohn / 2004 A Fierce God and a Fierce War: An Interview with Michael McClure Rod Phillips / 2007 Beat Poet Michael McClure on Jim Morrison, the Doors, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac Anis Shivani / 2011 Interview with Poet Michael McClure Jonah Raskin / 2013 Break on Through Garrett Caples / 2013 Poetry Questions: Michael McClure Rebecca Foresman / 2013 Beat Poet Michael McClure Tries New Style at Eighty-Three Sam Whiting / 2015 Index