Space Age
This is the second book by the author of Mainline to The Heart, presenting an advance in theme and language which proves him one of the top four or five young poets in the country. Space Age is the poetry of vision, a unique synthesis deriving as much from Bob Dylan as from Whitman, amounting to a breadth uncommon in contemporary poetry.
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ISBN: B0006C9U3U
numbered pages: 73
cover illustration: Maggie Cloherty
drawings by: Renie Perkins
Excerpt from Space Age
The crystal here world,
color lights blinking,
the perfect Tarot people,
hashed,
exploded out in frozen poses
against
walls and flower cushions
buzzing…
Heroin
The third published full work by Clive Matson is Heroin, a poetic expression of the effects of heroin use and addiction experienced by Matson during his years with the Beat Generation in New York City. It does not glamorize the drug but does explore the hold it can have on the user and the physical and spiritual encounters it can elicit. Matson shook his addiction, came out clean but with new insights and direction for his own writing based on his personal observations.
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published by: Neon Sun, 1972
Berkeley, CA
ISBN: B0006EB3VU
format: perfect bound, 5.25 x 8.25 inches
numbered pages: 35
drawings by: David Kelso
Excerpt from Heroin
Each day it's into a pleasure garden and
on brambled ways back through purgatory
There's a worn feeling in one's body,
a little gray ash about the soul
to warn about life trapped
in one manner of interpreting,
balanced on one frequency
and life's spectrum does spill over into
huge swirling bands on either side.
