Ghost Tantras by McClure, Michael - 1964-01-01

City Lights, 1964-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. San Francisco (Distributed by City Lights Books) [Published date: 1964] Soft cover, 106 pp. No other printings listed. In acceptable+ condition. Black and white pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and moderate overall scuffing and aging with the color scuffed off along edges and several other places. Spine creased but binding is still intact. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. [From rear cover] Poetry is a muscular principle and a revolution forthe body-spirit and intellect and ear. Making images and pictures; even when speaking with melody, is not enough. There must be a poetry of pure beauty and energy that does not mimic but joins and exhorts reality and states the daily higher vision. To dim the senses andlisten to inner energies a-roar is sometimes called the religious experience. It does not matter what it is called.Laughter as well as love is passion. The loveliness the nose snuffs in air may be translated to sound by interiorperceptive organs. The touch of velvet on the fingertips may become a cry when time is stopped. Speed like calmness may become a pleasure' or gentle muffled sound. A dahlia or fern might become pure speech in meditation. A woman's body might become the sound of worship. A goddess lies coiled at the base of man's body, and pure tantric sound might awaken her. There are no laws but living changing ones, and any systemis a touch of death.Read these poems as you would Lorca, or Mayakovsky, or Lawrence but READ ALOUD AND SINGTHEM. — These are spontaneous stanzas published in the order and with the natural sounds in which they were first written. If there is an “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH" simply say a long loud "oooh". If there is a "gahr' simply say gar and put an h in.