Clark Coolidge

Clark Coolidge (February 26, 1939 – ) is an American poet born in Providence, Rhode Island.

Often associated with the Language School, his experience as a Jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects--- including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dalí, Jack Kerouac, and movies--- often finds correspondence in his work.^[1] Coolidge grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and has lived, among other places, in Manhattan, Cambridge (MA), San Francisco, Rome (Italy), and the Berkshire Hills . He currently lives in Petaluma, California.

Sources

1. ^ Kit Robinson on Coolidge

Selected publications

1960s & '70s Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric. (New York: Lines Books, 1966). (with Tom Veitch) To Obtain the Value of the Cake Measure From Zero: A Play in One Act. (San Francisco: Pants Press, 1970). Space. (New York: Harper & Row, 1970). The So: Poems 1966. (New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1971). Suite V. (New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1973). The Maintains. (San Francisco, CA: This Press, 1974). Polaroid. (New York: Adventures in Poetry / Bolinas, CA: Big Sky, 1975). Quartz Hearts (San Francisco: This Press, 1978). Own Face (Lenox, MA: Angel Hair Books, 1978. Reprinted Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1993).

1980s Smithsonian Depositions & Subject to a Film. (New York: Vehicle Editions, 1980). A Geology. (Needham, MA: Potes & Poets Press, 1981. Reprinted in 1988 and 1999). Research. (Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 1982). Mine: The One That Enters the Stories. (Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1982). Solution Passage: Poems 1978-1981. (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986). The Crystal Text. (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1986. Reprinted Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995). Melencholia. (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1987). At Egypt. (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1988).

1990s Sound as Thought: Poems 1982-1984. (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1990). (with Ron Padgett) Supernatural Overtones. (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1990). Odes of Roba. (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1991). The Book of During. (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1991). (with Philip Guston) Baffling Means: Writings/Drawings. (Stockbridge, MA: O-blek Editions, 1991). (with Michael Gizzi and John Yau) Lowell Connector: Lines & Shots from Kerouac's Town. (West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, 1993). (with Larry Fagin). On the Pumice of Morons. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1993. The ROVA Improvisations. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. Registers (People in All). Avenue B, 1994 ISBN 0939691108 For Kurt Cobain. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1995. The Names. Brightlingsea, Essex: Active in Airtime, 1997. Now It's Jazz: Writings on Kerouac & The Sounds. Albuquerque, NM: Living Batch, 1999.

2000s & 10s (with Keith Waldrop) Bomb. New York: Granary Books, 2000. Alien Tatters. Berkeley, CA: Atelos, 2000. On The Nameways, Volume 1. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2000. Far Out West: On The Nameways, Volume 2. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2001. On the Slates. Oakland, CA: Tougher Disguises, 2002. Counting on Planet Zero. Wendell, MA : Fewer & Further Press, 2007. The Act of Providence. Qua Press, 2010 This Time We Are Both. Ugly Duckling Press, 2010

Editor

• Heart of the Breath: Poems 1979-1992 by Jim Brody. Hard Press Editions, 1996 ISBN 978-0963843371
• Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0520257160

External links

• CLARK COOLIDGE'S VISUAL ARTS INTERTEXTS 1968-1976 transcription of a talk by Tom Orange
• Clark Coolidge Homepage @ the Electronic Poetry Center
• From Notebooks (1976-1982) from Code of Signals, edited by Michael Palmer (PDF file at Duration Press, pages 43–56)
• Clark Coolidge Feature @ Jacket Magazine features poems, essays, interviews
• Clark Coolidge on Jack Kerouac
• "Add-Verse" a poetry-photo-video project Coolidge participated in
• Clark Coolidge as Literary Critic In this piece, Ron Silliman notes that Coolidge has produced "the finest critical writing I’ve ever read on Kerouac’s work".
• Works by or about Clark Coolidge in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Review of Clark Coolidge's This Time We Are Both.

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