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Clark Coolidge

Reading at the Ear Inn, New York. March 30, 1979

  1. "But it say nothing. If one is as quiet to say nothing..." (0:56)
  2. "Is it wicker" (0:28)
  3. "There is a caterpillar that makes a very complicated hammock" (3:37)
  4. "Clift Tore It" (1:26)
  5. "Rhymes With Monk" (3:14)
  6. "Beyond" (0:21)
  7. "My Gaps are Bags" (0:50)
  8. "Losing My Place" (1:58)
  9. "How I Open" (0:16)
  10. "Chalance" (1:08)
  11. "Album — A Runthru" (4:22)
  12. "A Note: I think that I live in a world full of silence..." (0:57)
  13. "Blazing On" (0:58)
  14. "Caveman" (0:46)
  15. "Passenger" (1:58)
  16. "Thronging Sunk" (0:28)
  17. "Two on a Snow Day" (0:50)
  18. "4 a.m." (0:35)
  19. "Floyd's Bean Cans" (1:27)
  20. "Our Nature's Future" (0:49)
  21. "Connie's Scared" (3:20)
  22. "In Postions is the Matter" (0:31)
  23. "At the Poem" (0:51)
  24. Complete Recording (36:05)

Reading at the Tyler Schol of Art April 10, 1985

  1. Fact Piece Near That Ocean (5:43): MP3
  2. Blues for Alice (2:15): MP3
  3. Days of Time and Twine (3:31): MP3
  4. A Note on the Mess (1:10): MP3
  5. Rome Passage (2:20): MP3
  6. Barely Twombly (2:18): MP3
  7. Ashbery Explains (5:29): MP3
  8. Somehow to Be Able to Say, Dedicated to Michael Palmer (1:24): MP3
  9. 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)

Segue Series Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, March 1, 1986

  • Complete Reading (35:36): MP3

Reading at UCSC, March 1, 2000

  1. Introduction by Peter Gizzi (4:20)
  2. Coolidge reading (56:20)
  3. Q & A: Serpent Power (5:35)
  4. Q & A: Publishing (0:39)
  5. Q & A: Kerouac (2:51)
  6. Q & A: Spicer (2:27)

Reading at SUNY Buffalo, April 26, 2000

  1. Introduction and Let It End with a Broom (2:57) : MP3
  2. Trips on Choosing (1:23) : MP3
  3. Rubber Slides (1:24) : MP3
  4. A Plain Load of Dumb Luck (1:21) : MP3
  5. For a Decent Man You Sure Get a Hardon Sheriff (0:58) : MP3
  6. Trustworthy Locator with Dog (0:51) : MP3
  7. Drops (0:30) : MP3
  8. Buddha Had to Train Him on Me (0:44) : MP3
  9. The Greener Sphere Got Shelved (1:28) : MP3
  10. It's the Globe that Pesters People (1:03) : MP3
  11. Fire Distinguishers (1:21) : MP3
  12. Dr. Death Lets Go (0:59) : MP3
  13. Buddha Cleans (0:49) : MP3
  14. Little Red Candies (1:08) : MP3
  15. From the Cimarron Sandhills (0:51) : MP3
  16. The Salt of a Hidden Bueno (1:09) : MP3
  17. Hullabaloo at Doodad Theme Park (0:53) : MP3
  18. Forgotten Title (1:09) : MP3
  19. Off a Flake (0:35) : MP3
  20. Little Place of Redness (0:28) : MP3
  21. Several (1:03) : MP3
  22. Buffalo Friends (1:00) : MP3
  23. Wagon Boys (1:06) : MP3
  24. The Boys that Take Forever (0:56) : MP3
  25. Where the Symbol of Water Is Fire (0:56) : MP3
  26. Asbestos Conductor (1:11) : MP3
  27. A Warm Afternoon in Dutch (1:16) : MP3
  28. My Shine on the War (1:02) : MP3
  29. Under the Solstice Scissors (1:04) : MP3
  30. The American Day (1:29) : MP3
  31. The Shield of What Ails You (1:00) : MP3
  32. Christo in Sarajevo, an Occupational Diminuendo (1:04) : MP3
  33. The Game Boy (1:10) : MP3
  34. I Said the Duck (1:29) : MP3
  35. Doubletalk on Tumbler's Flats (1:17) : MP3
  36. Money Plays (1:11) : MP3
  37. To Stop (0:46) : MP3
  38. Starting with Wall Boy (0:31) : MP3
  39. Cobb (1:18) : MP3
  40. A Moon Obscured by Clowns (0:57) : MP3
  41. No Fun (0:21) : MP3
  42. Scraping By on the Chance to Say Nothing (1:09) : MP3
  43. You See the Yell on That One (0:37) : MP3
  44. Tapioca, or Follow the Dots (1:12) : MP3
  45. Goals of the Ancient Popeye (1:14) : MP3
  46. This Canvas Sea We're Dying In (1:07) : MP3
  47. Plot (0:36) : MP3
  48. Occasion Killer (1:14) : MP3
  49. This Is No Time for Lemonade (2:34) : MP3
  50. 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)

Polaroid: Text published by BIG SKY/Adventures in Poetry in 1976.

  1. Part One (47:08)
  2. Part Two (57:28)

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

  1. Introduction (2:13)
  2. Section 3 (7:30)
  3. Section 4 (4:30)
  4. Section 5 (6:54)
  5. Section 6 (10:17)
  6. Section 7 (9:42)
  7. Section 11 (9:50)

from The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

  1. On Induction of the Hand (2:18): MP3
  2. The Hand Further (0:56): MP3

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