Poetry. "Not nostalgia transports us here, but the sweet pulse of 'vanished ephemerae,' love of the Voyage, the illumination, and 'throbbing rituals' of a life lived always inside poetry. Tom Clark's prodigious archive of memory trembles on the edge...

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Poetry. "One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had...

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Poetry. "Pretty much exactly like Tom Thumb's Blues, Mr. Clark goes on as ever letting his sensibility seep like rain through all the great American vernacular sites--film noir, baseball, the shore, dreams--and the result is a sequence of utterances...

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Poetry. "The place he writes from, of void/non-void overlap, is a pure arena for the imagination to play in; and Clark is likewise pure: austere, bleak, exalted too... shimmering as ever."—Alice Notley

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Poetry. The American poet/critic Bill Knott, speaking of Tom Clark's new work, has pointed to "the flow, the melodic momentum, the words in their intricate meaning(s), it's all done with such subtle touches, [the poet] in perfect control of his tech...

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Poetry. "Very exciting... The poems have the 'now' sound of current experience; they enable one to see a little further into life as it's presently being lived."—John Ashbery"Clark's knowledge of how poems are made, how to create works out of the so...

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