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by Clark Coolidge

Poetry by Clark Coolidge with a cover by Philip Guston.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

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

[M.W.P.M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 4 out of 5]

As usual, it's weird writing these reviews. It cd, hypothetically, all depend on my mood. Eg: I cd write: "Who gives a shit? It's poetry, I hate poetry." & it wd be as true as something very different that I might write.

I've been an experimental writer, I probably still am. It's not one of my highest priorities but it still tickles my brain now & then - then my brain sneezes instead of farting. In my days of greater investigation of things that can be done w/ language, I was looking for writers whose writing struck me as original, or just struck me - preferably w/o injury.

Coolidge has always been a beacon of originality. It doesn't matter one whit to me if I 'understand' what he's trying to do, what matters to me is that when I read the words they seem fresh - preferably fresh in a way that seems truly distinct to the writer - & that's Coolidge fer ya.

In his poem "CABINET VOLTAIRE", section 3 is roughly as follows:

3.


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it gether
tastic
for


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and sarily
and
sests


He uses fragments of words. "tradict" cd have a phantom limb 'completing' it as "contradict", "theless" cd be "nonetheless", "gether" -> "together", "tastic" -> "fantastic", "tion" -> "recognition", "sarily" -> "necessarily"; but what about "sests"? The last syllable of this section?

The very title of the bk is a 'mere' suffix. The Guston painting on the front has brush strokes enclosed by the cover, the one on the back has brush strucks enclosed by more brush strokes. By the time one has made it from the front to the back have the fragments become more complete by the process of reading them?