Clark Coolidge

Polaroid

The Crystal Text (Sun and Moon Classics)

Poetry. A reprint of this 1982 book of prose poetry by the nearly legendary avant-garde stalwart Clark Coolidge still exudes freshness. "A long-time master of the jazzy long work, Clark Coolidge has this time turned the long poem in prose into a non-fiction novel or tomb full of buried things taken with you of the new existence of old logic and present looking, all sung by a free man wortking alone and trapped as one is in cave with finite supply of oxygen, food, breath & luck"--Bernadette Mayer on MINE. Coolidge's many other titles available from SPD include ALIEN TATTERS, WAY OUT WEST, ON THE NAMEWAYS, and ON THE NAMEWAYS VOL. 2.

The One that Enters the Stories

Mine

The Maintains

Bernadette Mayer

American poets Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer produce a multi-layered collaboration of prose and verse.

The Cave

"39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of childhood on satellite waves."

Far Out West

Space

A missing masterpiece in 20th century experimental literature, Clark Coolidge's legendary 'Longprose' was written at a frenetic pace between 1973-1980. One of poetry's greatest acts of radical endurance and a major departure in style for Coolidge, this work, even without publication had a deep influence on the Language Poetry and New York Schools of Poetry, improvisational jazz, even painting. At over 500 pages of sustained, exhilarating prose, A Book Beginning What and Ending Away reconciles the relentless iconoclasm of the language poets with Coolidge's own, deeply rooted theories of abstraction and musicality, yet remains astonishingly readable more than thirty years after Coolidge abandoned the project - originally planned to be more than 1,000 pages - in 1980. A resurrected classic. "Clark Coolidge is a one-man avant-garde."--Peter Gizzi

A Book Beginning what and Ending Away

Philip Guston

"This volume introduces the diverse voices that comprise Guston's linguistic tapestry. Guston never stopped talking for too long. There may have been periods of silence precipitated by existential moments of doubt, but such lapses seem anomalous when measured against the voluminous transcriptions gleaned and edited by Clark Coolidge. Coolidge has done an admirable job arranging and presenting the book's contents, entirely relevant to anyone curious about Guston, and by extension, American Art of the post-World War II period."—Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator at Knox-Albright Gallery

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