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


Background


As a teenager, Coolidge attended Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island. 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. In 1967, Coolidge moved to San Francisco and joined David Meltzer's band, The Serpent Power, as a drummer.[1] Often associated with the Language School[2] 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.[3] 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.


Publications


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

References


  1. "What Is a Poet?". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  2. Sonksen, Mike (2013-04-19). "Small Presses: Poetic Communities Coast to Coast | LA Letters | Land of Sunshine". KCET. Archived from the original on 2013-08-21. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
  3. "Kit Robinson on Coolidge". Epc.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
  4. edited by Clark Coolidge and Larry Fagin, with an introduction by Bill Berkson





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