Tom Clark, Author, Amy Gerstler, Introduction by . Coffee House $20 (338p) ISBN 978-1-56689-183-7
Disarmingly casual yet saturated with loss, Clark's body of work revels in simplicities: lovers, friends, cities and landscapes (New York, Southern California, the Southwest), baseball, basketball, modern painters, sad weather, brief visions and
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Tom Clark, Author Black Sparrow Press $14.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-87685-917-9
Clark's ( Sleepwalker's Fate: New & Selected Poems ) long career has included sensitive biographies of poets (e.g., Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson) and scathing journalism about notorious incidents in American literary life (``The Great Naropa Poetry...
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Tom Clark, Author Black Sparrow Press $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87685-985-8
The seven parts of this inconsistent, largely autobiographical collection, do not make a whole larger than their sum. The first section, ``Happy Talk,'' which is too long by half, consists of 14-line pieces that are not so much sonnets as they are...
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Tom Clark, Author Black Sparrow Press $15.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87685-984-1
The seven parts of this inconsistent, largely autobiographical collection, do not make a whole larger than their sum. The first section, ``Happy Talk,'' which is too long by half, consists of 14-line pieces that are not so much sonnets as they are...
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Tom Clark, Author Random House (NY) $16.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-394-55312-2
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (18941961) is famous in the history of modern literature primarily for two scurrilous, obscenely funny, brilliant black novels of the '30s, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan. He is infamous as...
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Tom Clark, Author W. W. Norton & Company $27.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-393-02958-1
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...
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Tom Clark, Author, Dick Kleiner, With Pharos Books $18.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-88687-562-6
In recounting his 20-year professional and personal relationship with the film and TV actor, Hollywood publicist Clark, aided by Kleiner ( Don't Shoot My Dog ), sets out as well to dispute the charge brought in a successful lawsuit against the...
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