On the Nameways Volume Two

by Clark Coolidge

Poetry. Following Volume One of ON THE NAMEWAYS, this newest work by this modern master is, as the name suggests, partly a meditation on the fact of names: Antonin Artaud in his shoulderpads/ leave and you can say hello/...Karl Malden in the moral void (from Arsenic and Old Blemishes). For Coolidge, the figure of the improvising jazz soloist becomes a model for the poet in the moment of writing -- darting in and out of motivic possibilities, exploring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930589077
• ISBN13: 9781930589070
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Figures
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.0"