Clark Coolidge
Clark Coolidge is an American poet.Background
As a teenager, Coolidge attended Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island. 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. In 1967, Coolidge moved to San Francisco and joined David Meltzer's band, The Serpent Power, as a drummer. 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, San Francisco, Rome, and the Berkshire Hills. He currently lives in Petaluma, California.Publications
- Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric,.
- ING,.
- To Obtain the Value of the Cake Measure From Zero: A Play in One Act,.
- Space,.
- The So: Poems 1966,.
- Suite V,.
- The Maintains,.
- Polaroid,.
- Quartz Hearts,.
- Own Face,.
- Smithsonian Depositions & Subject to a Film,.
- A Geology,.
- American Ones,.
- Research,.
- Mine: The One That Enters the Stories,.
- Solution Passage: Poems 1978-1981,.
- The Crystal Text,.
- Melencholia,.
- At Egypt,.
- Sound as Thought: Poems 1982-1984,.
- Supernatural Overtones,.
- Odes of Roba,.
- The Book of During,.
- Baffling Means: Writings/Drawings,.
- Lowell Connector: Lines & Shots from Kerouac's Town,.
- On the Pumice of Morons,.
- The ROVA Improvisations,.
- Registers ,.
- For Kurt Cobain,.
- The Names,.
- Now It's Jazz: Writings on Kerouac & The Sounds,.
- Bomb,.
- Alien Tatters,.
- On The Nameways, Volume 1,.
- On The Nameways, Volume 2,.
- Far Out West,.
- On the Slates,.
- Counting on Planet Zero,.
- The Act of Providence,.
- This Time We Are Both,.
- Book Beginning What and Ending Away,.
- 88 Sonnets,.
- Selected Poems: 1962-1985,
As editor
- Heart of the Breath: Poems 1979-1992 by Jim Brody. Hard Press Editions, 1996
- Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010
