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88 Sonnets: Poems

88 Sonnets: Poems - Paperback

by Clark Coolidge
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Availability:In StockContributor:Clark CoolidgeSeries:Fence Modern PoetsPublish date:2013-01-01Pages:88
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Fence BooksISBN-13:9781934200612ISBN-10:1934200611UPC:9781934200612Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesSize:7.90 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SCFP0CYYB0

Coolidge's embrace of the sonnet form - a continuation of the project begun in On the Nameways and Alien Tatters - is a gemlike amalgam of narrative urge, wacky name-dropping, and pure visuality. Coolidge's legendary proliferation - as many as 10 sonnets in a single day - marries the stunning variety of his intellect, on the mountaintop of formal inquiry.


LIBRARY OF HAY


So slow death oft the onyx dolls

each in its own lab colors rollicking encores

who's there? do you want your museum

room infiltrated? only the singing parts

terrible loss of air raid powder

entanglements poled on kapok

the last to be heard? this ploy of dolls

irradiated heads and curls of coffin wood

death is always plural here? stolid

anyway someway still enters the frontway

through the water door to Manikin Lake

the throttles held down there you went to

hair school against my wisdom thus the

remnants spelled out there then coded there



ARCANE HEMISPHERES


Something is wrong with the literature of this blood

maybe a tool baron? help must be brought

to light this legend take the taxis away

clear the blocks I will have all flesh riven

gestural lengths of shadow and echo bulk

the Armbruster is the name of the monster this time

but I don't anymore take it that anything!

the vestibules beyond the outer rooms will tell the tale

Uncle Cecropio you may dust my broom

palest crystal master what is dead must remain

beyond the alternate fleshlike regions let it go

Artoo will find us out heard a cry in the mirror

located in the funnies but so graceless in class

the whole night shines a brass hole in my tongue


Languages:EnglishPublisher:Fence BooksISBN-13:9781934200612ISBN-10:1934200611UPC:9781934200612Book Category:Poetry, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesSize:7.90 x 6.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.44Product ID:SCFP0CYYB0
Clark Coolidge was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Though associated with the Language Poets, his work predates the movement and despite close contact with many of them he remains distinct from any movement, literary or political. His primary literary influences are Rilke, Beckett, and Kerouac, but jazz, geology, and painting also play a large part. This poetic purist shares with many avant-garde artists of the 1950s and 1960s the belief that art is discovery, and so creates an exploratory 'improvisational momentum' in its composition which aims to 'tell the story that has never been thought before' in a writing which is itself the primary focus, rather than its subject matter. The author of more than 20 books of verse and prose, including Own Face, At Egypt, The Crystal Text, The Maintains, Solution Passage, and Mine: One That Enters the Stories, he is also the editor of Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations (The Documents of Twentieth-Century Art), 2010.
Publisher: Fence Books

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