Clark Coolidge

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

• 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

1. Introduction by Peter Gizzi (4:20): MP3
2. Coolidge reading (56:20): MP3
3. Q & A: Serpent Power (5:35): MP3
4. Q & A: Publishing (0:39): MP3
5. Q & A: Kerouac (2:51): MP3
6. Q & A: Spicer (2:27): MP3

Reading at Wednesdays @ 4 Plus, SUNY-Buffalo, November 14, 1990

complete reading (53:46): 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

1. Fact Piece Near That Ocean (5:43): MP3
2. Blues for Alice (2:15): MP3 [text]
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)

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): MP3
2. "Is it wicker" (0:28): MP3
3. "There is a caterpillar that makes a very complicated hammock" (3:37): MP3
4. "Clift Tore It" (1:26): MP3
5. "Rhymes With Monk" (3:14): MP3
6. "Beyond" (0:21): MP3
7. "My Gaps are Bags" (0:50): MP3
8. "Losing My Place" (1:58): MP3
9. "How I Open" (0:16): MP3
10. "Chalance" (1:08): MP3
11. "Album — A Runthru" (4:22): MP3
12. "A Note: I think that I live in a world full of silence..." (0:57): MP3
13. "Blazing On" (0:58): MP3
14. "Caveman" (0:46): MP3
15. "Passenger" (1:58): MP3
16. "Thronging Sunk" (0:28): MP3
17. "Two on a Snow Day" (0:50): MP3
18. "4 a.m." (0:35): MP3
20. "Floyd's Bean Cans" (1:27): MP3
21. "Our Nature's Future" (0:49): MP3
22. "Connie's Scared" (3:20): MP3
23. "In Postions is the Matter" (0:31): MP3
24. "At the Poem" (0:51): MP3
Complete Recording (36:05): MP3

1. introduction by Michael Brownstein (5:17): MP3
2. Coolidge introduces the poem (1:15): MP3
3. American Ones, Part I (13:47): MP3
4. American Ones, Part II (5:46): MP3
5. American Ones, Part III (6:25): MP3
6. American Ones, Part IV (2:37): MP3
7. American Ones, Part V (9:42): MP3
8. American Ones, Part VI (6:23): MP3
9. American Ones, Part VII (7:42): MP3
10. American Ones, Part VIII (4:39): MP3
11. American Ones, Part IX (2:56): MP3
12. American Ones, Part X (6:05): MP3

• complete reading (1:12:35): MP3

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

1. Part One (47:08): MP3
2. 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

1. Introduction (2:13): MP3
2. Section 3 (7:30): MP3
3. Section 4 (4:30): MP3
4. Section 5 (6:54): MP3
5. Section 6 (10:17): MP3
6. Section 7 (9:42): MP3
7. Section 11 (9:50): MP3

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)
"Words Program" Interview with Charles Amirkhanian, KPFA-FM, January 9, 1969
(click here for streaming audio, via Archive.org)

Special thanks to Tom Orange for his enthusiasm and editorial guidance, and to Danny Snelson for his help in segmenting the Segue and SUNY

Clark Coolidge on PennSound Daily

• January 4, 2010: "Clark Coolidge: Two New Recordings"
• 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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