Clark Coolidge

Clark Coolidge (born 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. 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.

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.