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Clive Matson has a new book, Chalcedony's First Ten Songs. "Extravagant, rich and powerful - these poems are a vibrant call to body and spirit and earth through the sensory world. It's as if Clive Matson's early voice lost its anger and returns to embrace sensual life in all its joys and pains." Clive's first book, Mainline to the Heart (1966) will be re-issued in 2009. Members of the Beat Generation were his teachers, and he admits that revisiting his youthful work has been “a challenge. It helps that I hear, in these poems, both an urgent need to connect and full cognizance of the difficulties.” He makes his living teaching creative writing (MFA Columbia University), using his text, Let the Crazy Child Write! (1998), which honors the creative unconscious fully. His seventh volume of poems, Squish Boots (2002), was placed, amazingly, in the coffin of his mentor, John Wieners.
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