Clark Coolidge

Clark Coolidge (born February 26, 1939) is an American poet.

Background
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.

Selected publications

 * 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 0-939691-10-8
 * 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
 * Book Beginning What and Ending Away. Fence Books, 2013.

As editor

 * Heart of the Breath: Poems 1979-1992 by Jim Brody. Hard Press Editions, 1996 ISBN 978-0-9638433-7-1
 * Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-520-25716-0