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Clark Coolidge
Reading at the Kelly Writers House, October 26, 2017
- Video Recording:
- Complete Audio (01:04:32): MP3
PoemTalk Podcast #60, discussing Clark Coolidge's "Blues for Alice," December 16, 2012
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.
Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, April 26, 2000
- Introduction and Let It End with a Broom (2:57)
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- Trips on Choosing (1:23)
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- Rubber Slides (1:24)
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- A Plain Load of Dumb Luck (1:21)
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- For a Decent Man You Sure Get a Hardon Sheriff (0:58)
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- Trustworthy Locator with Dog (0:51)
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- Drops (0:30)
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- Buddha Had to Train Him on Me (0:44)
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- The Greener Sphere Got Shelved (1:28)
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- It's the Globe that Pesters People (1:03)
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- Fire Distinguishers (1:21)
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- Dr. Death Lets Go (0:59)
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- Buddha Cleans (0:49)
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- Little Red Candies (1:08)
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- From the Cimarron Sandhills (0:51)
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- The Salt of a Hidden Bueno (1:09)
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- Hullabaloo at Doodad Theme Park (0:53)
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- Forgotten Title (1:09)
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- Off a Flake (0:35)
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- Little Place of Redness (0:28)
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- Several (1:03)
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- Buffalo Friends (1:00)
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- Wagon Boys (1:06)
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- The Boys that Take Forever (0:56)
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- Where the Symbol of Water Is Fire (0:56)
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- Asbestos Conductor (1:11)
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- A Warm Afternoon in Dutch (1:16)
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- My Shine on the War (1:02)
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- Under the Solstice Scissors (1:04)
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- The American Day (1:29)
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- The Shield of What Ails You (1:00)
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- Christo in Sarajevo, an Occupational Diminuendo (1:04)
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- The Game Boy (1:10)
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- I Said the Duck (1:29)
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- Doubletalk on Tumbler's Flats (1:17)
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- Money Plays (1:11)
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- To Stop (0:46)
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- Starting with Wall Boy (0:31)
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- Cobb (1:18)
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- A Moon Obscured by Clowns (0:57)
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- No Fun (0:21)
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- Scraping By on the Chance to Say Nothing (1:09)
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- You See the Yell on That One (0:37)
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- Tapioca, or Follow the Dots (1:12)
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- Goals of the Ancient Popeye (1:14)
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- This Canvas Sea We're Dying In (1:07)
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- Plot (0:36)
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- Occasion Killer (1:14)
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- This Is No Time for Lemonade (2:34)
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- complete reading (53:52): MP3
Most of these poems can be found in On the Nameways (The Figures, 2000) or Far Out West (Adventures in
Poetry, 2001)
Reading at UCSC, March 1, 2000
- Introduction by Peter Gizzi (4:20): MP3
- Coolidge reading (56:20): MP3
- Q & A: Serpent Power (5:35): MP3
- Q & A: Publishing (0:39): MP3
- Q & A: Kerouac (2:51): MP3
- Q & A: Spicer (2:27): MP3
Reading Kerouac with Michael Gizzi, West Stockbridge, MA, studio of Steve Schwartz, 1994
Reading Kerouac's Old Angel Midnight (45:53): MP3
Reading as part of The Tenth Muse II, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, March 8, 1993
Photo © Lawrence Schwartzwald
Reading at Wednesdays @ 4 Plus, SUNY-Buffalo, November 14, 1990
- introduction (2:44): MP3
- Comes Through in the Call Hold (Improvisations on Cecil Taylor) (17:02): MP3
- Registers (People In All) (13:22): MP3
- This Time We Are Both (20:15): MP3
complete reading (53:46): MP3
Reading selections from Samuel Beckett's prose works and discussing his own writing, Wednesdays @ 4 Plus, SUNY-Buffalo, November 15, 1990
Reading from Beckett
- introduction to Beckett's prose work (5:47): MP3
- reading from "On Joyce's Finnegan's Wake" (1:55): MP3
- reading from Proust (1:07): MP3
- reading from Dream of Fair to Middling Women (2:01): MP3
- reading from "Dante and the Lobster" (2:39): MP3
- reading from Murphy (2:22): MP3
- reading from a letter to Axel Kaun (2:03): MP3
- reading from a letter to Thomas MacGreevey (0:32): MP3
- reading from Watt (3:27): MP3
- reading from an early version of Krapp's Last Tape (0:43): MP3
- reading from an interview with Gabriel d'Aubarede (0:08): MP3
- reading from "La Peinture des van Veldes" (0:16): MP3
- reading from The End (1:09): MP3
- reading from Mercier and Camier (1:57): MP3
- reading from The Expelled (1:49): MP3
- reading from First Love (1:12): MP3
- reading from The Calamative (2:40): MP3
- reading from Molloy (5:25): MP3
- reading from Malone Dies (8:52): MP3
- reading from Texts for Nothing (2:42): MP3
- reading from Embers (0:10): MP3
- reading from How It Is (0:42): MP3
- reading from Fizzle No. 4 (2:41): MP3
- reading from a conversation with Tom Driver (0:50): MP3
- reading from an interview with Lawrence Harvey (1:15): MP3
- reading from Enough (0:27): MP3
- reading from Imagination Dead Imagine (1:47): MP3
- reading from Ping (1:14): MP3
- reading from Lessness (0:41): MP3
- reading from The Lost Ones (1:17): MP3
- reading from Beckett's translation of "Pour Avigdor Arikha" (0:31): MP3
- reading from Company (4:27): MP3
- reading from Ill Seen Ill Said (4:03): MP3
- reading from Worstward Ho (4:29): MP3
- reading from a conversation with Charles Juliet (0:40): MP3
Discussion
- on Clark Coolidge's The Crystal Text (2:15): MP3
- the relation between Cecil Taylor's music and Clark Coolidge's poetry (7:35): MP3
- the resistance of language (3:49): MP3
- emphasis of talking about music in Coolidge's work (6:17): MP3
- experimenting with and limiting vocabulary (2:56): MP3
- "physics of sense and motion" in poetry and words as material (5:14): MP3
- collaboration in poetry (5:28): MP3
- writers using other writers' words, forgetfulness, and Robert Smithson's notion of dedifferentiation (5:10): MP3
- differences between the poet and the literary critic (1:59): MP3
- being attacked for doing something different (2:56): MP3
- on John Cage (4:18): MP3
- attaining ecstatic states through writing and Jack Kerouac (4:53): MP3
- jazz and improvisation in relation to public readings and performances (5:27): MP3
complete recording (2:13:30): MP3
At The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1988
- Reading on October 12, 1988 Part 1 (45:12): MP3
- Reading on October 12, 1988 Part 2 (17:30): MP3
- Reading on October 12, 1988 Full (1:02:50): MP3
Speaking in Cummington, MA, June 28, 1987
Introduction by Ed Foster
complete recording (39:20): MP3
Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York,
March 1, 1986
- complete reading (35:36): MP3
Reading at the Tyler School of Art April 10, 1985
- Fact Piece Near That Ocean (5:43):
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- Blues for Alice (2:15): MP3
[text]
- Days of Time and Twine (3:31): MP3
- A Note on the Mess (1:10): MP3
- Rome Passage (2:20): MP3
- Barely Twombly (2:18): MP3
- Ashbery Explains (5:29): MP3
- Somehow to Be Able to Say, Dedicated to Michael Palmer (1:24): MP3
- Complete Reading (32:25): MP3
Panel Discussion on Image/ Imaging at the Tyler School of Art April 10, 1985. With Rachel Blau
DuPlessis, Michael Palmer, John Yau, and
Geoffrey Young
- Introduction by David Hannah (6:58): MP3
- Part One (32:50): MP3
- Part Two (32:35): MP3
- (Recordings at Tyler courtesy of Rachel Blau DuPlessis)
- tenets of Imagism (2:40): MP3
- Clark Coolidge on logopeia and the movement of language (4:01): MP3
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis on the rejection of "poetic material" and imaging as a site of struggle (3:28): MP3
- Michael Palmer on the economy of the poem, the diffusing of Imagism, vorticism and objectification in the body of the poem (11:51): MP3
- John Yau on stereotypes of the writer and the structure of images one is allowed to produce (3:45): MP3
- on T.S. Eliot and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (4:23): MP3
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis on the politics of prosody, the hierarchy of the text and destroying language while using language (3:09): MP3
- on the totality of the image (2:55): MP3
- on the visual aspect of words on a pagge (6:05): MP3
- Michael Palmer on the apparition of visual images in his work (1:40): MP3
- John Yau on field verse, the source of images, and cues in language (4:03): MP3
- on the source of dreams and the harmony of the work (3:32): MP3
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis on being a woman writer, rupturing the images of a culture, and stealing other people's images (5:20): MP3
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis on deconstructing socially mandated discourses (3:08): MP3
- Michael Palmer on the analytic-lyric (1:02): MP3
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis on the place of woman as constructed site and the difference between a feminine and a female poetry (3:46): MP3
Reading at the Ear Inn, New York. March 31, 1979
- "But it say nothing. If one is as quiet to say nothing..." (0:56): MP3
- "Is it wicker" (0:28): MP3
- "There is a caterpillar that makes a very complicated hammock" (3:37): MP3
- "Clift Tore It" (1:26): MP3
- "Rhymes With Monk" (3:14): MP3
- "Beyond" (0:21): MP3
- "My Gaps are Bags" (0:50): MP3
- "Losing My Place" (1:58): MP3
- "How I Open" (0:16): MP3
- "Chalance" (1:08): MP3
- "Album — A Runthru" (4:22): MP3
- "A Note: I think that I live in a world full of silence..." (0:57): MP3
- "Blazing On" (0:58): MP3
- "Caveman" (0:46): MP3
- "Passenger" (1:58): MP3
- "Thronging Sunk" (0:28): MP3
- "Two on a Snow Day" (0:50): MP3
- "4 a.m." (0:35): MP3
- "Floyd's Bean Cans" (1:27): MP3
- "Our Nature's Future" (0:49): MP3
- "Connie's Scared" (3:20): MP3
- "In Postions is the Matter" (0:31): MP3
- "At the Poem" (0:51): MP3
Complete Recording (36:05): MP3
Reading "American Ones" at the Naropa Institute, July 1977
- introduction by Michael Brownstein (5:17): MP3
- Coolidge introduces the poem (1:15): MP3
- American Ones, Part I (13:47): MP3
- American Ones, Part II (5:46): MP3
- American Ones, Part III (6:25): MP3
- American Ones, Part IV (2:37): MP3
- American Ones, Part V (9:42): MP3
- American Ones, Part VI (6:23): MP3
- American Ones, Part VII (7:42): MP3
- American Ones, Part VIII (4:39): MP3
- American Ones, Part IX (2:56): MP3
- American Ones, Part X (6:05): MP3
- complete reading (1:12:35): MP3
Polaroid, S -Press Cassette
- Side A (59:02): MP3
- Side B (44:59): MP3
Polaroid: Text published by BIG SKY/Adventures in Poetry in 1976.
- Part One (47:08): MP3
- Part Two (57:28): MP3
Recording made by Michael Kohler at the University of Connecticut
in Storrs on September 24, 1974. © 1978 by Clark Coolidge and S
PRESS TONBANDVERLAG, Dusseldorf-Munchen, W-Germany.
Reading from Mine: The One That Enters the Stories at UCSD
- Introduction (2:13): MP3
- Section 3 (7:30): MP3
- Section 4 (4:30): MP3
- Section 5 (6:54): MP3
- Section 6 (10:17): MP3
- Section 7 (9:42): MP3
- Section 11 (9:50): MP3
From The World Record:
Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980
- On Induction of the Hand (2:18): MP3
- The Hand Further (0:56): MP3
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