Автор:Clive Matson Год: 2009 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 92 ISBN: 1587901390 This new edition of Clive Matson's early poems includes all of Diane di Prima's Poets Press version 1,000 copies were sold out in 1966-67 and adds significant uncollected pieces from the same period. At once obstreperous and innocent, these poems celebrate a place where emotion, sex, and religion come together with overwhelming intensity. In the fifties and sixties Beat Generation writers were revisiting this edgy, full-blooded romantic tradition and Matson joined the exploration with youthful energy. But the quest was fraught with tension. To Matson's heart and mind, the Beatific vision morphs into something as sinister as it is beautiful, sex is utterly consuming yet fosters hostility, emotion is an exhilarating current as dangerous as a tsunami, drugs are glorious and bring one to the brink of death. Writing these poems were a crucial part of a young person's growth, as demonstrated by the open, accessible style. The poet's overriding concern is understanding the self and the...
