Selected work from Tom Clark's first quarter century of writing, from songs of innocence published when he was twenty-five ("Lake Life, I want to take a bath/ In you and forget death") to lines reflecting the disappointments and compromises of middle age ("While everything external/ dies away in the far off/ echo of the soul/ still there's a mill wheel turning/ . . . / by some distant stream/ a note of peace/ in a life which/ will never be peaceful"). The book is divided into two parts: the generous "New Poems, 1986-1991," ...
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Selected work from Tom Clark's first quarter century of writing, from songs of innocence published when he was twenty-five ("Lake Life, I want to take a bath/ In you and forget death") to lines reflecting the disappointments and compromises of middle age ("While everything external/ dies away in the far off/ echo of the soul/ still there's a mill wheel turning/ . . . / by some distant stream/ a note of peace/ in a life which/ will never be peaceful"). The book is divided into two parts: the generous "New Poems, 1986-1991," which collects recent lyrics mourning the passing of time, the trials of insomnia, the sad politics of poetry, and the sadder poetry of politics; and "Dark Continent, 1965-1986," Clark's judicious winnowing of his earlier work (on love, baseball, classicism, jazz, physics, trout kills, popular culture, and Catholic-Zen-antinomian mysticism). Between the two comes a ferocious prose poem, "Diary of Desert War, 1990-1991," written in the terse, telegraphic style of the Times Square news zipper--that is, of a news zipper in the hands of a surrealist op-ed poet.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. A like new book. Signed and numbered, 70/125 copies. 212 p. Sewn binding. Pictorial boards. Acetate dust jacket. Book is clean and tight. Numbered 70 of 125 copies printed and signed on colophon by Tom Clark.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. A like new book. Signed and lettered Z of 26 copies printed. 212 p. Sewn binding. Pictorial boards. Acetate dust jacket. Book is clean and tight. Lettered Z of 26 copies printed and signed on colophon by Tom Clark. Includes a hand drawing on front fly leaf by Tom Clark.
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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Hard cover in clear dust jacket, as issued. illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip and paper spine label., very light rubbing to dj. no flaws or wear. clean, no markings. no bumps, tears. tight binding.; number 74 from edition of 125 copies. signed by clark under the limitation., 212pp. poetry.
