Tom Clark (poet)
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Tom Clark (March 1, 1941 – August 18, 2018, aged 77) was an American poet, editor and biographer.[1]
Education and personal life
Clark was born on the
On March 22, 1968, he married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York City.[4] As of 2013, he was living in California.
Career
Clark was poetry editor of
Residing in California for the remainder of his life, Clark was an active writer, producing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. In 1991, he published a biography of Charles Olson, one of his poetic mentors, titled Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life (Norton: 1991).
Death
On the evening of Friday, August 17, 2018, Clark was walking across a street in Berkeley, California, and was hit by a car at about 8:40 p.m. He died on the following day.[6]
Bibliography
Poetry collections
- Stones. Harper & Row. 1969.
- Air. Harper & Row. 1970.
- Green. Black Sparrow Press. March 26, 1971. ISBN 978-0876850817.
- Smack. Black Sparrow Press. December 1972.
- Blue. ISBN 978-0876851838.
- Fan Poems. North Atlantic Books. 1976. ISBN 978-0913028452.
- When Things Get Tough on Easy Street. Black Sparrow Press. 1978. ISBN 978-0876853498.
- A Short Guide to the High Plains, For ISBN 978-0932274175.
- Paradise Resisted: Selected Poems 1978-1984. Black Sparrow Press. May 1, 1984. ISBN 978-0876856116.
- The Border: Poem and Drawings. ISBN 0918273064.
- Disordered Ideas. Black Sparrow Press. June 1, 1987. ISBN 978-0876856956.
- Easter Sunday: Selected Poems 1962 and 1987. Coffee House Press. October 1, 1987. ISBN 978-0918273277.
- Fractured Karma. Black Sparrow Press. February 1990. ISBN 978-0876857939.
- Sleepwalkers Fate: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1991. Black Sparrow Press. June 1992. ISBN 978-0876858707.
- Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of ISBN 978-0876859186.
- Like Real People. Black Sparrow Press. October 1, 1995. ISBN 978-0876859841.
- White Thought. Hard Press. 1997. ISBN 978-8890972096.
- Empire of Skin. Black Sparrow Press. November 1997. ISBN 978-1574230512.
- Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems. ISBN 978-1566891837.
- Threnody. effing press. 2006.
- Trans/Versions. Libellum Books. January 1, 2010. ISBN 978-0975299388.
- The New World. Libellum Books. January 1, 2010. ISBN 978-0975299371.
- Feeling For The Ground. ISBN 978-1935402961.
- Something In The Air. Shearsman Books. March 15, 2010. ISBN 978-1848611085.
- At The Fair. BlazeVOX Books. June 21, 2011. ISBN 978-1609640446.
- Canyonesque. BlazeVOX Books. September 16, 2011. ISBN 978-1609640712.
- Distance. BlazeVOX Books. April 6, 2012. ISBN 978-1609640972.
- Truth Game. BlazeVOX Books. July 10, 2013. ISBN 978-1609641443.
- Evening Train. BlazeVOX Books. July 11, 2014. ISBN 978-1609641870.
- Ride. Flow Press. May 25, 2017. ISBN 978-0998735719.
Literary biography
- The World of Damon Runyon. ISBN 978-0060107710.
- The Great ISBN 978-0932274069.
- Late Returns: A Memoir of ISBN 978-0939180356.
- Kerouac's Last Word: Jack Kerouac in Escapade. Water Row Books. February 1987. ISBN 978-0934953078.
- ISBN 978-1557783080.
- ISBN 978-0393029581.
- ISBN 978-0811212502.
- ISBN 978-1556433979.
- ASIN B003AONG7W.
Fiction
- The Master. Pentagram Press. 1979.
- Who Is Sylvia?. Blue Wind Press. 1979.
- The Last Gas Station & Other Stories. ISBN 978-0876854563.
- Heartbreak Hotel. Toothpaste Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0915124572.
- The Exile of ISBN 978-0394553122.
- The Spell: A Romance. Black Sparrow Press. Jan 1, 2000. ISBN 978-1574231243.
Essays on Poetry
- The Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties. ISBN 978-0472094288.
- Problems of Thought: Paradoxical Essays. Effing/Skanky Possum. 2009.
Other books by Clark
- ISBN 978-0060108328.
- No Big Deal: ISBN 978-0397012336.
- In the Shadow of the Capitol: Photographs by Carl Mydans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration, September 1935. Pataphysics Books, 2012. 2002. ISBN 978-0987338709.
References
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (August 24, 2018). "Tom Clark, 77, Is Dead; Poet, Biographer, Baseball Bard". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ 'Tom Clark', poets.org [1]. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ a b Tom Clark, 'Letters Home from Cambridge (1963-5)', Jacket Magazine, issue 20, December 2002. [2] Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Biographical data on Clark taken from contributor's notes section at The Holiday Album: Greeting Card Poems For All Occasions feature at Jacket magazine, edited by Elaine Equi, with a poem by Clark
- ^ Tom Clark Author Page at the Jacket Magazine website
- ^ "Pedestrian, 77, dies after driver struck him south of The Alameda crosswalk". Berkeleyside. 2018-08-18. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
External links
- Finding aid to the Tom Clark papers at Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- The World Begins: A visit with Tom Clark
- Tom Clark Author Page at Jacket Magazine
- Tom Clark page at the Poetry Foundation
- Tom Clark's Blog
- Tom Clark page and poem at the Academy of American Poets
- Tom Clark, 1941-. American author Washington University Libraries bio
- "Knights of the Road" - Tom Clark reviews "This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris" by James Campbell in the London Review of Books (Vol. 22 No. 13 · 6 Jul 2000)
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