On the Nameways

by Clark Coolidge

Poetry. I began writing these poems in an empty moment when I thought maybe I'd run out and had no more to do. Snap. I found lines coming to me on waking in the morning, insisting I follow them into odd short poems, strange to see, indicating what I knew not. Eventually I began writing them while watching movies (from Hopalong Cassidy Enters to Last Year At Marienbad) on satellite TV, a practice reminding me of DeKooning drawing with his left hand,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930589026
• ISBN13: 9781930589025
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Figures
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.0"