Also by Michael McClure

Poetry Hymns to Saint Geryon Dark Brown The New Book/A Book of Torture Ghost Tantras Dark Brown and Hymns to Saint Geryon Star Rare Angel September Blackberries Jaguar Skies Antechamber Fragments of Perseus Selected Poems Rebel Lions Simple Eyes Three Poems: Dolphin Skull, Rare Angel, and Dark Brown Huge Dreams: and Beat Poems Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha Rain Mirror Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven Mysteriosos

Plays The Blossom The Beard The Mammals Gargoyle Cartoons Gorf, or Gorf and the Blind Dyke The Grabbing of the Fairy Josephine: The Mouse Singer The Beard & VKTMS: Two Plays Essays, Interviews, Biography Meat Science Essays Wolf Net Freewheelin Frank: Secretary of the Angels, as Told to Michael McClure Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac Specks Francesco Clemente: Testa Coda Lighting the Corners: On Art, Nature, and the Visionary, Essays and Interviews

Fiction The Mad Cub The Adept

Collaborations “Mercedes Benz,” with Mandala Book, with The Adventures of a Novel, with Bruce Conner Lie, Stand, Sit, Be Still, with Robert Graham The Boobus and the Bunnyduck, with Jess Deer Boy, with Hung Liu

Films, CDs, and DVDs Love Lion, with Ray Manzarek The Third Mind, with Ray Manzarek There’s a Word, with Ray Manzarek I Like Your Eyes Liberty, with Rock Drill Abstract Alchemist Rebel Roar Touching the Edge

Documentaries The Maze September Blackberries Of Indigo and Saffron Michael McClure

Of Indigo and Saffron

New and Selected Poems

Edited and with an Introduction by Leslie Scalapino

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McClure, Michael . Of indigo and saffron : new and selected poems / Michael McClure ; edited and with an introduction by Leslie Scalapino. p. cm. Includes index. isbn 978-0-520-26287-4 (cloth : alk. paper) I. Scalapino, Leslie. II. Title. ps3563.a262o38 2011

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