Name Clark Coolidge Role Poet | Education Brown University | |
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Books The Crystal Text, Own face, Now It's Jazz, Far Out West, On the Nameways | ||
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Clark Coolidge (born February 26, 1939) is an American poet.
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- Background
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Clark coolidge reads for small press distribution s 40th anniversary poetry blow out 1of 2
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. Often associated with the Language School 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. 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.
