Poetry. EASTER SUNDAY joins recent poems by Tom Clark with rediscovered and revised earlier poems to form a book that expresses the abiding spirit of this poet's entire work. "One comes more and more to think of a poet as somebody who's not so much owner or proprietor as simple custodian of poems entrusted to his care by the language," Clark says. "Another way of saying this is that the poet's proper work is listening to the conversation that takes place between the parts of the poem he's set in motion, and moving everything he can to further that dialogue.... That kind of listening work tends to go on for a lifetime, and the poems in EASTER SUNDAY represent a project only slightly less lengthy, 1962-1987, to be exact."

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Tom Clark (born 1941) is an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago and married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark's Church, New York City, on March 22, 1968. Currently (as of 2009) residing in California, Tom Clark's recent books of poetry include Threnody (effing press, 2006), LIGHT AND SHADE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Coffee House, 2006), AT THE FAIR (BlazeVOX Books, 2010), SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Shearsman Books, 2010), FEELING FOR THE GROUND (BlazeVOX [books], 2010), THE NEW WORLD (Libellum Books, 2010), TRANS/VERSIONS (Libellum Books, 2010), CANYONESQUE (BlazeVOX [books], 2011), and DISTANCE (BlazeVOX [books], 2012).