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)
20. "Floyd's Bean Cans" (1:27)
21. "Our Nature's Future" (0:49)
22. "Connie's Scared" (3:20)
23. "In Postions is the Matter" (0:31)
24. "At the Poem" (0:51)
25. 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
From the Cimarron Sandhills (0:51) : MP3
15. The Salt of a Hidden Bueno (1:09) : MP3
Hullabaloo at Doodad Theme Park (0:53) : MP3
16. Forgotten Title (1:09) : MP3
17. Off a Flake (0:35) : MP3
18. Little Place of Redness (0:28) : MP3
19. Several (1:03) : MP3
20. Buffalo Friends (1:00) : MP3
21. Wagon Boys (1:06) : MP3
22. The Boys that Take Forever (0:56) : MP3
23. Where the Symbol of Water Is Fire (0:56) : MP3
24. Asbestos Conductor (1:11) : MP3
25. A Warm Afternoon in Dutch (1:16) : MP3
26. My Shine on the War (1:02) : MP3
27. Under the Solstice Scissors (1:04) : MP3
28. The American Day (1:29) : MP3
29. The Shield of What Ails You (1:00) : MP3
30. Christo in Sarajevo, an Occupational Diminuendo (1:04) : MP3
31. The Game Boy (1:10) : MP3
32. I Said the Duck (1:29) : MP3
33. Doubletalk on Tumbler's Flats (1:17) : MP3
34. Money Plays (1:11) : MP3
35. To Stop (0:46) : MP3
36. Starting with Wall Boy (0:31) : MP3
37. Cobb (1:18) : MP3
38. A Moon Obscured by Clowns (0:57) : MP3
39. No Fun (0:21) : MP3
40. Scraping By on the Chance to Say Nothing (1:09) : MP3
41. You See the Yell on That One (0:37) : MP3
42. Tapioca, or Follow the Dots (1:12) : MP3
43. Goals of the Ancient Popeye (1:14) : MP3
44. This Canvas Sea We're Dying In (1:07) : MP3
45. Plot (0:36) : MP3
46. Occasion Killer (1:14) : MP3
47. This Is No Time for Lemonade (2:34) : MP3
48. 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

Also of Interest:

• Small Inventions: Suite V (plurals) and Suite IV (2:05) recorded at Mills College, January 1969 (from the LP The Dial-A-Poem Poets, Giorno Poetry Systems 1972)
• excerpt from Dews (1:10) recorded at Mills College, April 1969 (from the LP The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Disconnected, Giorno Poetry Systems 1974)

Special thanks to Danny Snelson for his help in segmenting the Segue and SUNY

Clark Coolidge on PennSound Daily

• July 25, 2008: "Coolidge, DuPlessis, Palmer, Yau, Young: Readings and Roundtable at Tyler School of Art, 1985"
• November 20, 2007: "Two Clark Coolidge Readings Available As Singles"

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