Who is Michael McClure from The Portable Beat Reader and what is their importance? The_Portable_Beat_Reader English & Literature Michael McClure | The Portable Beat Reader

McClure is a San Francisco Renaissance poet, and his poems are typically about nature and psychedelic drug experiences. McClure also writes one of the more famous accounts of the Six Gallery reading. McClure publishes his autobiography as a novel entitled "The Mad Cub" in 1970, and is disappointed that the book is marketed as the misadventures of a very foolish person.