Poetry. "39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of my childhood on satellite waves, realizing an inherent wackiness in these accounts of men descending from horses before buttes or saloons, speaking lines like 'This town got a sawbones?' or 'I reckon not' (see Kerouac's Old Western Movies). Some of these films notorious even respected (Johnny Guitar) but mostly workmanlike Cassidys from in the late Thirties, unexpectedly gorgeous in their black & white Lone Pine vistas and spirited inertias of 'Saddle up boys Hoppy needs ya!' They had me so dreaming that I took aim and wrote. Or wrote without hardly aiming to, one"-from the author. Coolidge is the author of many other books of poetry available at SPD, including AT EGYPT, ODES OF ROBA, and BOMB.

Author City: Petaluma, CA USA

Clark Coolidge (b. February 26, 1939) is an American poet born in Providence, Rhode Island. Often associated with the Language School, his experience as a Jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects--including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dali, Jack Kerouac, and movies--often finds correspondence in his work. Coolidge grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and has lived, among other places, in Manhattan, Cambridge (MA), San Francisco, Rome (Italy), and the Berkshire Hills. He currently lives in Petaluma, California.