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Coolidge's embrace of the sonnet form - a continuation of the project begun in On the Nameways and Alien Tatters - is a gemlike amalgam of narrative urge, wacky name-dropping, and pure visuality. Coolidge's legendary proliferation - as many as 10 sonnets in a single day - marries the stunning variety of his intellect, on the mountaintop of formal inquiry.

LIBRARY OF HAY 

So slow death oft the onyx dolls 

each in its own lab colors rollicking encores 

who's there? do you want your museum 

room infiltrated? only the singing parts 

terrible loss of air raid powder 

entanglements poled on kapok 

the last to be heard? this ploy of dolls 

irradiated heads and curls of coffin wood 

death is always plural here? stolid 

anyway someway still enters the frontway 

through the water door to Manikin Lake 

the throttles held down there you went to 

hair school against my wisdom thus the 

remnants spelled out there then coded there 

ARCANE HEMISPHERES

Something is wrong with the literature of this blood 

maybe a tool baron? help must be brought 

to light this legend take the taxis away 

clear the blocks I will have all flesh riven 

gestural lengths of shadow and echo bulk 

the Armbruster is the name of the monster this time 

but I don't anymore take it that anything! 

the vestibules beyond the outer rooms will tell the tale 

Uncle Cecropio you may dust my broom 

palest crystal master what is dead must remain 

beyond the alternate fleshlike regions let it go 

Artoo will find us out heard a cry in the mirror 

located in the funnies but so graceless in class 

the whole night shines a brass hole in my tongue 

Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge has been connected to both the Language movement and the New York School. His poetry utilizes syntactical and sonic patterns to engage and generate meaning. Coolidge's numerous collections of poetry include Selected Poems: 1962-1985 (2017); 88 Sonnets (2013); Book Beginning What and Ending Away (2013); This Time We Are Both (2010); Sound as Thought (1990), which was chosen for the New American Poetry Series; Own Face (1978); and Flag Flutter & U.S. Electric (1966). His work is included in An Anthology of New York Poets (1970) and The Young American Poets (1968). He is the editor of Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations (2010) and Heart of the Breath: Poems, 1979-1992 (1996) by Jim Brody. Coolidge lives in Petaluma, California.