{"id":9207,"date":"2012-10-20T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2012-10-20T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T14:44:11","slug":"happy-80th-michael-mcclure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/happy-80th-michael-mcclure\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 80th Michael McClure!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Nelson has a nice tribute for Michael McClure on his 80th b-day on his site. Opening paras here; the whole shebang here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Michael McClure turns 80 today, October 20, 2012. A leading USAmerican poet, playwright, essayist and novelist, he was born in Kansas, but spent some of his formative years in Seattle\u00a0<\/strong>and is considered a Black Mountain poet, a Beat poet and a poet of the San Francisco Renaissance.\u00a0It was not long after I moved to Auburn, Washington, that a new book of his appeared in the mailbox. It was\u00a0Three Poems<\/em><\/strong>. I had no idea at the time that the book would radically affect my life, but I did know that he was someone I wanted to interview. The book was sent to me because I was an interviewer and was on the media lists of publishers. I had interviewed Allen Ginsberg the previous year, 1994 and it might have been the Ray Manzarek connection or the Ginsberg\/Beat poet connection that made me say yes to the interview opportunity, but it was set for October 1995.
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Paul Nelson has a nice tribute for Michael McClure on his 80th b-day on his site. Opening paras here; the whole shebang here.   by\u00a0SPLABMAN\u00a0on\u00a0OCTOBER 19, 2012\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0LEAVE A COMMENT Michael McClure turns 80 today,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114],"tags":[1307,1308],"class_list":["post-9207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homage","tag-michael-mcclure","tag-paul-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9210,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions\/9210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}