Recording (3:02:05): MP3
The third hour comprises a long sequence of pieces recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center and originally broadcast on Coolidge's WORDS program, KPFA, Berkeley, CA, 9/1/1969. With excerpts of tape pieces "Small Inventions (plurals)" (1969), "Dews" (1969), and a reading from "Polaroid" (1976).
This was recorded at Clark and Susan Coolidge’s home in Petaluma, California.
Coolidge & Cherkovski : In Conversation, Petaluma, CA, June 25, 2018; filmed by Kyle Harvey
VIDEO
Media.SAS Mirror URL: MP3
Reading at the Kelly Writers House, October 26, 2017
Video Recording:
Watch on Media.sas
Complete Audio (1:04:32): MP3
Reading at Poets House, April 4, 2013
Recording courtesy of Gryphon Rue. For additional information see Poets House Website .
The Painter's Poet: a talk on Philip Guston (1:19:19): MP3
Bill Berkson and Clark Coolidge on Philip Guston, June 8, 2011
Complete recording (1:10:31): MP3
Reading at SPD Open House, CA, April 5, 2009
Recording (13:05): MP3
Reading at SUNY-Buffalo , April 26, 2000
Introduction and Let It End with a Broom (2:57): MP3
Trips on Choosing (1:23): MP3
Rubber Slides (1:24): MP3
A Plain Load of Dumb Luck (1:21): MP3
For a Decent Man You Sure Get a Hardon Sheriff (0:58): MP3
Trustworthy Locator with Dog (0:51): MP3
Drops (0:30): MP3
Buddha Had to Train Him on Me (0:44): MP3
The Greener Sphere Got Shelved (1:28): MP3
It's the Globe that Pesters People (1:03): MP3
Fire Distinguishers (1:21): MP3
Dr. Death Lets Go (0:59): MP3
Buddha Cleans (0:49): MP3
Little Red Candies (1:08): MP3
From the Cimarron Sandhills (0:51): MP3
The Salt of a Hidden Bueno (1:09): MP3
Hullabaloo at Doodad Theme Park (0:53): MP3
Forgotten Title (1:09): MP3
Off a Flake (0:35): MP3
Little Place of Redness (0:28): MP3
Several (1:03): MP3
Buffalo Friends (1:00): MP3
Wagon Boys (1:06): MP3
The Boys that Take Forever (0:56): MP3
Where the Symbol of Water Is Fire (0:56): MP3
Asbestos Conductor (1:11): MP3
A Warm Afternoon in Dutch (1:16): MP3
My Shine on the War (1:02): MP3
Under the Solstice Scissors (1:04): MP3
The American Day (1:29): MP3
The Shield of What Ails You (1:00): MP3
Christo in Sarajevo, an Occupational Diminuendo (1:04): MP3
The Game Boy (1:10): MP3
I Said the Duck (1:29): MP3
Doubletalk on Tumbler's Flats (1:17): MP3
Money Plays (1:11): MP3
To Stop (0:46): MP3
Starting with Wall Boy (0:31): MP3
Cobb (1:18): MP3
A Moon Obscured by Clowns (0:57): MP3
No Fun (0:21): MP3
Scraping By on the Chance to Say Nothing (1:09): MP3
You See the Yell on That One (0:37): MP3
Tapioca, or Follow the Dots (1:12): MP3
Goals of the Ancient Popeye (1:14): MP3
This Canvas Sea We're Dying In (1:07): MP3
Plot (0:36): MP3
Occasion Killer (1:14): MP3
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
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
Middle Borders 1 (3:26): MP3
Middle Borders 2 (3:24) MP3
Middle Borders 3 (3:45) MP3
Middle Borders 4 (5:54) MP3
Monk, A Head (2:46) MP3
What is Thought but Won't Hold Still (2:01) MP3
Ashbery Explained (4:33) MP3
Cats Mounted on Cots (7:21) MP3
Complete Reading (35:36): MP3
Reading at the Tyler School of Art April 10, 1985
Fact Piece Near That Ocean (5:43):
MP3
Blues for Alice (2:15): MP3
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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
"Blues for Alice" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 60 .
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
80 Langton Street Writers In Residence Readings, October 15-21, 1979
In 1979, Coolidge read from a then untitled prose work. The readings, over six nights, were two hours each, with a break in the middle. There was a question period on the final night. The work was eventually published as A Book Beginning What and Ending Away (Fence Books, 2013). Thanks to John DeWitt.
Day 1 Set 1: MP3
One: The Caves [1 of 1] (00:15 – 41:15)
Two [1 of 3] (41:15 – 46:00)
Day 1 Set 2: MP3
Two [2 of 3] (00:00 – 43:30)
Day 2 Set 1: MP3
Two [3 of 3] (00:30 – 17:15)
Three: Beckett [1 of 2] (17:20 – 43:30)
Day 2 Set 2 MP3
Three: Beckett [2 of 2] (00:15 – 03:20)
Four [1 of 1] (03:20 – 43:00)
Day 3 Set 1A: MP3
Six [1 of 1] (00:00 – 41:30)
Seven: Creeley [1 of 3] (41:30 – 47:19)
Day 3 Set 1B: MP3
Seven: Creeley [2 of 3] (41:30 – 47:19)
Day 3 Set 2: MP3
Seven: Creeley [3 of 3] (00:00 – 29:40)
Eight [1 of 2] (29:45 – 44:50)
Day 4 Set 1: MP3
Eight [2 of 2] (00:30 – 39:45)
Nine: A Geology [1 of 3] (39:45 – 44:40)
Day 4 Set 2: MP3
Nine: A Geology [2 of 3] (00:00 – 36:40)
Day 5 Set 1: MP3
Nine: A Geology [3 of 3] (00:15 –21:40)
Ten [1 of 2] (21:45 – 31:10)
Day 5 Set 2: MP3
Ten [2 of 2] (00:00 – 47:04)
Day 6 Set 1: MP3
Eleven: Dalí [1 of 1] (00:30 – 38:50)
Twelve [1 of 3] (00:00 – 02:23)
Day 6 Set 2: MP3
Twelve [2 of 3] (00:05 – 47:20)
Twelve [3 of 3] (00:00 – 02:23)
Oct. 21, 1979: Q & A
Question and answer session [1 of 2]: MP3
Question and answer session [2 of 2]: 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 from MINE at UCSD, March 11, 1985
Complete Recording, (53:49)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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