New York: A New Directions Book, 1974. First New Directions Paperbook Printing. Paperback. 151pp. Octavo [20 cm] White and black pictorial wraps. A collection of 75 poems demonstrating McClure's "bio-alchemical" aesthetic. American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist was a powerhouse and Beat Generation monolith in his time. He was immortalized in thinly veiled fiction novels like The Dharma Bums (as one of the five poets at the San Francisco Six Gallery Reading in 1955), and as Pat McClear in Big Sur, both by Jack Kerouac. September Blackberries is a work that, like all great works of poetry, manages to move between effulgent and rapturous passages where the language is evocative of something like Walt Whitman; to moments of political cynicism, and a melancholic patina that hangs like a sword of Damoclese over McClure's poetic voice. https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter/bundles/227748]
