Crystal Text

by Clark Coolidge and Clark Collidge

The occasion for this poetic meditation is a colorless quartz crystal sitting upon the writer's desk. The crystal is as still and irreducible as a death's head in St. Jerome's study or Cezanne's studio. But what would the crystal reveal, if it could speak? How might the issue of its presence be brought into language? The poet of The Crystal Text, by means of a rare stamina of attention and listening vulnerability, seeks to become the medium of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935724206
• ISBN13: 9780935724202
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Figures
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.