{"product_id":"huge-dreams-san-francisco-and-beat-poems-penguin-poets","title":"Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems (Penguin Poets)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuge Dreams republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, which together are a cornerstone of the Beat movement: The New Book\/A Book of Torture and Star. Both were influential in expanding poetry into a larger world:the West Coast Beat phenomena, which focused on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. With these books Michael McClure brought an animal energy and a knowledge of art and physical human nature that was new to the scene.The New Book\/A Book of Torture was written spontaneously while McClure was in a dark night of the soul brought on by psychedelics. A single long poem of experience and exploration, it offers the means of liberation from the darkness it examines. Star is a wideranging book of chalice seeking, spiritual discovery, and political protest, grounded in the emotions and sensations of eros and play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"McClure, Michael \/ paperback","offer_id":47842374287605,"sku":"SONG0140589171","price":21.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/71dnqfNpZUL.jpg?v=1773777170","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/huge-dreams-san-francisco-and-beat-poems-penguin-poets","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}