Product Description: Signed by author. Includes a few B&W illustrations. Very clean and tight copy. Shows shelf wear. Size: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2". No marks. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's name press-stamped. All edges are clean...read more

Product Description: Signed by Clark on the title page. One of only 500 copies.

Product Description: One of 1,000 copies. Cover art by the author.

Poems create a vivid portrait of contemporary, middle-class life gone sour

Product Description: This fast-paced cinematic novel depicts a hip young American professor/poet's brief but deeply disturbing affair with an enigmatic Englishwoman named Sylvia. Set against the backdrop of the psychedelic 60s, the novel opens on the London literary scene where Bob and Sylvia become entangled...read more

Poems describe life in the modern West, the role of the poet, mortality, nature, and politics

Accused Nazi sympathizer Celine--author, doctor, anti-semite--is hunted by the French Resistance, and is arrested and hospitalized to await his seemingly inevitable fate, in this fictional recreation of the controversial writer's last days

Product Description: Book by Tom Clark

Hudson's closet friend and lover of twenty years focuses on the actor's full life, rather than his painful last months, in a collection of anecdotes, memories, and photographs

Gathers essays, stories, and poems about baseball, baseball players, and the myths and history of baseball

Product Description: An incandescent biography of the inventor of "projective" verse, this comprehensive portrait distinguishes the convivial, bluff public figure from the tormented inner man. A lapsed Catholic, Olson (1910-1970) turned to Sumerian myths, Mayan legends and Islamic mysticism for cosmic insights that would inform poems of cyclic sweep...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Covers tone, plot, characterization, dialogue, point of view, pacing, research, revision, agents, manuscript submission, book contracts, and copyediting

Product Description: Published to mark the poet's fiftieth birthday, this is a landmark book in Tom Clark's oeuvre: a selection from his first quarter century of writing, from songs of innocence published when he was twenty-five ("Lake Life, I want to take a bath/ In you and forget death") to lines reflecting the disappointments and compromises of middle age ("While everything external/ dies away in the far off/ echo of the soul/ still there's a mill wheel turning/ ...read more

Product Description: Incredibly empathic poems that are beautifully understated impressions/reflections on episodes in the sudden mortal splendor that was Keats' brief life. (RC) Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An illuminating, interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between Creeley and Clark together with Creeley's own Autobiography (1990), a talk he gave on poetry and the commonplace at New College of California (1991), and many personal photographs of himself and family and friends.

Product Description: Let Thomas Clark, editor of Writer's Digest magazine, show you how to command attention, land a sale, comport yourself as a professional writer. Read Queries & Submissions and discover how to format professional-looking query letters, cover letters and manuscripts; how to fulfill every editor's demand: Know Your Target Magazine!; tips on crafting dynamic, compelling opening paragraphs that will grab an editor's attention; real-life examples - query letters that sold articles; how to use photocopies of your published articles to help your chances - and how to avoid having this backfire; how to get an editor to trust your experience - even if you've never sold an article before; easy techniques for brainstorming article ideas; when you don't need to send a query letter first; when you can break the "No Phone Queries!" rule; how to send out multiple ideas on the same topic - without making simultaneous submissions; tips for deciding how much detail to put into your letter; and how to sell your articles again and again...read more