{"id":496,"date":"2012-12-06T17:19:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T01:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.InvisibleAdventure.com\/?p=496"},"modified":"2012-12-06T17:19:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T01:19:51","slug":"of-mantras-and-poetry-a-new-essay-up-at-mead-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/?p=496","title":{"rendered":"Of Mantras and Poetry:  A New Essay Up at Mead Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the heels of my Lion House reading, I found this cool clip of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=djtmpdlXKEA\" title=\"Michael McClure Reading Poetry to Lions.\">Michael McClure<\/a> reciting his &#8220;beast language&#8221; to the lions at the old Lion House at the SF Zoo.  Thanks to Jillian Rose for reminding me about it!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael McClure reading poetry to lions\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djtmpdlXKEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI wrote about McClure&#8217;s collection, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Tantras-Michael-McClure\/dp\/0877040141\" title=\"Ghost Tantras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghost Tantras<\/a>,&#8221; in my essay, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meadmagazine.org\/Shue.html\" title=\"Of Mantras and Poetry:  The Seed Syllables of Sound Poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Of Mantras and Poetry:  The Seed Syllables of Sound Poetry<\/a>,&#8221; up in the current issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meadmagazine.org\/Mead.html\" title=\"Mead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mead:  The Magazine of Literature and Libations<\/a>, edited by the feisty and talented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meadmagazine.org\/Editorial.html\" title=\"Laura McCullough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laura McCullough<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe essay also delves into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_B\u00f6k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Bok&#8217;s<\/a> poetry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wcd4qDuOACw\" title=\"Tibetan Warrior Seed Syllables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bon Warrior Seed Syllables<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackson_Mac_Low\" title=\"Jackson Mac Low\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jackson Mac Low&#8217;s<\/a> Performance Piece and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_Ball\" title=\"Hugo Ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hugo Ball<\/a>&#8216;s Dadaist Poems!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the heels of my Lion House reading, I found this cool clip of Michael McClure reciting his &#8220;beast language&#8221; to the lions at the old Lion House at the SF Zoo. Thanks to Jillian Rose for reminding me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/?p=496\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,1],"tags":[32,47,82,91,104,121,123,134,140,183,204],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-bon-warrior-seed-syllables","tag-christian-bok","tag-hugo-ball","tag-jackson-mac-low","tag-jillian-rose","tag-laura-mccullough","tag-lion-house","tag-mead-the-magazine-of-literature-and-libations","tag-michael-mcclure","tag-san-francisco-zoo","tag-tenzin-wangyal-rinpoche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.invisibleadventure.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}