Clive Matson's Books
Mar.01.2009
This new edition of Clive Matson's early poems includes all of Diane di Prima's Poets Press version 1,000 copies were sold out in 1966-67 and adds significant uncollected pieces from the same period. At once obstreperous and innocent, these poems celebrate a place where emotion, sex, and religion come together with overwhelming intensity. In the fifties and sixties Beat Generation...
Jan.15.2008
("Cal-SAID-'n-ee") These poems are a vibrant call to body and spirit and earth through the sensory world. Extravagent, rich and powerful -it's as if Clive Matson's early voice lost its anger and returns to embrace sensual life in all its joys and pains.
Sep.11.2002
As the swords of war are being rattled, an archive of American poets' responses to 9/11and its aftermath has been collected and published in AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WORLD BLIND - POETS ON 9/11. Co-edited by Clive Matson and the late Allen Cohen, with a foreword by political analyst Michael Parenti, this anthology presents 120 poems by more than 100...
Jul.02.2002
"Delightful and penetrating at the same time, these poems are a revelation." — Susan Griffin, Author
Open this book and fall into a tumultuous world where each act sings, shouts and cries the full chorus of the unconscious. Matson uses kaleidoscopic images that infiltrate our work-a-day defenses and invite our deepest feelings and truths to surface - like taking a...
Nov.11.1998
Let the Crazy Child Write! celebrates the role of the creative unconscious or Crazy Child in stories, poems, plays, and essays. Examples show how the Crazy Child informs our writing and gives it texture and flair, and a plethora of exercises allow you to demonstrate for yourself the power of the knowledge in your own body. Topics covered are Image Detail, Slow Motion, Hook,...
Jan.01.1987
What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale," observes Suzuki in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Each piece in Hourglass describes how it feels to become that swinging door -- or to wrestle with thoughts that would jam it. The poet engages in a long, entertaining and unwinnable battle with his own mind. As his understanding grows,...
Jan.01.1983
Matson's work is powerful and tender. He has a clarity which is deceptive: the seeming simplicity that comes from a thoughtful and complex technique. The poems speak direct to the heart. Diane DiPrima, author and poet.
Remarkable! How rare poems like these are. How important..open and delicate. Robert Bly, author and...
About Clive
"Penetrating curiosity" is what his elementary school teacher saw in Clive Matson. Writing a poem about the wind -- in Southern California hills behind the avocado ranch where he grew up -- and reading the first page of Joyce's Portrait of an Artist...
Causes Clive Matson Supports
Amnesty International, National Resources Defense Council