Coolidge, Clark - To The Cold Heart (2021)

Clark Coolidge is an American poet
and musician associated with
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry

and the New York School.

His work, often concerned with

the musical and rhythmic qualities

of language to the exclusion

of literal meaning, can be
both beautiful and opaque.

The author
of a dizzyingly large number
of books,                                

Clark does not use the internet.

He is a resident of Petaluma, California.

 

Charles Bernstein on To The Cold Heart:

“Clark Coolidge’s To the Cold Heart is an adventure of mind’s reassociative play with words, tipsily tripping on tongue with an improvisatory exuberance the age demands. Like Parmenides doing a polka, Coolidge blows the tune at every turn.”

Peter Gizzi on To The Cold Heart:

"In these wonderfully concise poems, inspired by Hanshan, the Cold Mountain poet, there is a delicacy to be discovered from line to line, poem to poem. There are also enigmas questing for meaning to be found. This may be Clark Coolidge’s most quiet and intimate book where the reader finds space in small things, vitality in wonder."

 

Thurston Moore on To The Cold Heart:

"Regardless of when, Clark’s poetry is always in the moment of timelessness—like the scurrying bop keys of Horace Silver, the vocabulary is centered in rhythm, in music at play with thoughts derived from the spaces between the notes. New every spin."

Appears on Dennis Cooper's favorite fiction, poetry, non-fiction, film, art, and internet of 2021 so far list

Clark Coolidge interviewed by Parker Menzimer in Bomb Magazine