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New York and London: Penguin Books, 1999. Paperback. Very Good clean copy w/ fo's poetic inscription in pencil to rep. 8vo. b&w photo of McClure. no wraps This volume brings together two of Michael McClure's most influential books of poems, both written in the 1960's and both long out of print, The New Book/A Book of Torture, and Star; McClure is one of the Beat Generation's most original and enduring voices, and this collection finds him at the height of his powers; characteristic themes of individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, anti-war, the natural world, etc; all in the inimitable McClure style; the rear endpaper has a haiku inscribed in pencil by the former owner road trip/revision-mirror sun set/red explosion