Three Poems: Dolphin Skull, Rare Angel and Dark Brown Book

I've always loved McClure, even though I know that I could never love him as much as he loves himself. Even so, I like the way he roars & whispers poems, I like the hippie language he practically invented, and I really like it when he stretches out in long poems, like these. Rare Angel is a total masterpiece, lucid and hallucinatory, with a lovely cadence and many strong political and spiritual aspects. Probably my favorite of the three poems in this book. I heard him read from it once, at the MOMA series, the same one where Duncan cursed a camera guy for buzzing around and in front of him like a bee. McClure read this poem softly, stately and with great aplomb. Very luminous poem, and sometimes a bit flarfy.