Product Description: Poetry. Carefully edited by his friends, Clark Coolidge and Craig Watson, the COLLECTED POEMS includes all of Michael Gizzi's books, and more than 100 pages of unpublished poetry covering the years 1975-2010, with a useful, informative introduction by William Corbett...read more

Product Description: "A modern-day Rosetta Stone, Book Beginning What and Ending Away bridges the wild conceptual experimentalism of the 1960s and the rigid, doctrine-driven personal politics of the 1970s and early 1980s Language poets, while illuminating the path toward a freeform, devastating 'point perspective lyric' that is Coolidge's operative method today...read more

Product Description: "Clark Coolidge is a one-man avant-garde."—Peter GizziClark Coolidge's embrace of the sonnet form is a gemlike amalgam of narrative urge, wacky name-dropping, and pure visuality. Coolidge's legendary proliferation—as many as ten sonnets in a single day—marries the stunning variety of his intellect on the mountaintop of formal inquiry...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Written in 1991, this previously unpublished work dates back to the publication of such seminal books as The Crystal Text, AT EGYPT, and ODES OF ROBA. Based on his trips to St. Petersburg, THIS TIME WE ARE BOTH uses a dense stream-of-conscious style that employs a fragmentary, often reverse syntax that is a hallmark of Coolidge's poetics...read more

Product Description: This is the premier collection of dialogues, talks, and writings by Philip Guston (1913–1980), one of the most intellectually adventurous and poetically gifted of modern painters. Over the course of his life, Guston’s wide reading in literature and philosophy deepened his commitment to his art―from his early Abstract Expressionist paintings to his later gritty, intense figurative works...read more

Product Description: "39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of my childhood on satellite waves, realizing an inherent wackiness in these accounts of men descending from horses before buttes or saloons, speaking lines like ‘This town got a sawbones?’ … They had me so dreaming that I took aim and wrote...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Poetry. Following Volume One of ON THE NAMEWAYS, this newest work by this modern master is, as the name suggests, partly a meditation on the fact of names: Antonin Artaud in his shoulderpads/ leave and you can say hello/...Karl Malden in the moral void (from Arsenic and Old Blemishes)...read more

Product Description: Prose. Poetry. ALIEN TATTERS is a series of prose poem meditations in response to (someone's) sightings of UFOs and encounters with aliens. The writer has been/is being abducted. The writings are the situation's tatters, its tatterings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A landmark first-time collaboration between poet Clark Coolidge and writer/scholar/artist Keith Waldrop, Bomb is a meditation on a book of photographs that document the Manhattan Project. Coolidge's thirty-page poem begins with epigraphs by Democritus, Gregory Corso and Andre Breton/Paul Eluard, and continues in an elliptical, glancing narrative style that lucidly investigates a subject often too traumatic to consider directly the impact of the atomic bomb on our lives...read more

Product Description: In this unique book a late twentieth century poet and musician writes about one of the most enduring and influential members of midcentury's Beat Generation. Perhaps Jack Kerouac's most famous phrase is his description of his own writing as "spontaneous bop prosody," and Coolidge understands that prosody, the secret, still underground language of America...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "The second printing of the first edition" (according to Potes & Poets) of this classic text by an American master. "Drift, a homonym as seen to, lists the cups./ In cones, parts. Of the pods, to step, as goes./ Rings, feet in time, inch...read more

Product Description: His zigzag is unearthly, sometimes. Not just word/nerve/combinations, but flowing structures to amaze the gloom of lower Manhattan. The discipline inherent in Kerouac's locomotive mediatations. Brodey's book is a flying horse of wild crab language served up by a poet already well-versed in how a poem walks...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Music is another of Coolidge's grammars, which is to say that music provides the rules--structure, the division of time, and the organization of pitch--that underpin the work. There are playful allusions and riffings: 'Monk that took the blues on upon the surpassing swing/ but doesn't understand when someone puts them back in a bag...read more

Product Description: reprint of classic 70s United Artists book

Fiction. From THE BOOK OF DURING: "In every a room, but could I describe it, ride around its edges, never quite pushing through the perimeter wherein we spent so many fucking afternoons. Terrible picture of all the words waiting relentlessly outside. What after all is the activity of telling beyond the fate of act? A feeling as if I had only heard about the teeming presence of my own life. And is your fucking a telling? Everywhere wandered around in here while we were doing it. But we hardly noticed, we were too palmed into our past decide. Will you tell me about it while we are doing it? Will you find yourself able to tell what we were doing while we are doing a thing similar? Can you relate to me.. Will you say everything you can recall from it, the act of saying of a fucking previous in a fucking present? And then you put your..and I lifted my...And then I came, and then you came, and then will we come? Or are these only as thoughts of a room, its light and walls?"

Baffling Means in a collaboration between poet Clark Coolidge and artist Philip Guston, published in 1991.

Product Description: Poetry. "Poems Written in Rome, October 1984 - February 1985" is the note below the manuscript title of ODES OF ROBA ("Roba" means "stuff" in Italian slang), a period which marked Clark Coolidge's first experience of Italy, particularly Rome, an immersion of five months in an architectural complex and cultural dilation long imagined, often heard extolled by Philip Guston, Alvin Curran, and others, and now finally present in the dailiness of the poet's life as a Writer-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome...read more

Product Description: follow-up to SOLUTION PASSAGE, short poems

Product Description: Poetry. Clark Coolidge's 1988 book AT EGYPT is a single poem in eleven sections that treats travel as a source for the generative self. Coolidge gestures at his dissolubility as a traveler and, as such, a productive ability for complete re-generation of self "from inside the factory that changes it forever...read more

Product Description: POETRY.