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

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).

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).

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.

(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