Polaroid

by Clark Coolidge

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Genres: Poetry

100 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Coolidge attended Brown University, where his father taught in the music department. After moving to New York City in the early 1960s, Coolidge cultivated links with Ted Berrigan and Bernadette Mayer. 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, Coolidge often finds correspondence in his work. 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.

Reviews

[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 4 out of 5]

The top of page 97:

"dial around forth enough means that there since
it's still lest closely light dial an around times as yet lots
dial by seen apart than by lots as forth a there that this leave
in case let lest dial really single a matter of one tending may
a lot of match twin seat case will dial leaving places gotten to turn around"

I can approximately date when I read this bk by seeing the smoke/soot stain across the top. This dates it as something that was in my collection in 1985 before my apartment was set fire to early that yr. I think my interest in Coolidge was starting to wane at the time. Maybe I had 'better' things to think about - like how utterly vicious the society I lived in was.

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book of poetry attempts to capture the chemical, crystalline properties of polaroid film through words alone. pretty much changed the way i look at language. sit through 100+ pages of things like "is and the what of been" and i'm sure it'll do the same for you too.