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Sound as Thought: Poems 1982-1984

Clark Coolidge

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Any work by Clark Coolidge is a cause for celebration among readers of contemporary poetry; and a major new work such as Sound as Thought is an important event in the poetry scene. Coolidge's brilliant improvisatory constructions crackle with the thrill of language, a love of the world made meaningful through the spoken word.

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Some comments on Coolidge's recent poetry

"Solution Passage, which collects three years' worth of poems, runs to nearly 400 pages—a stream of invention immediately followed by The Crystal Text, a single 150-page meditation on a piece of quartz. Either of these books by itself would be a peak; to be given both at once seems a natural wonder."
— The Village Voice

"[Solution Passage is the] work of an experimental master doing a set of brilliant takes on the convention."
— David Antin, Los Angeles Times

"Not only is [Solution Passage] an unusually lengthy collection of poems, it is also one of the most unusual and remarkable volumes of verse to come along in years. Reminiscent, somewhat, of the linguistic experiments of Gertrude Stein, the economy of expression of Hart Crane, the creative syntax of E. E. Cummings, and the orality of the coffeehouse recital poetry of the Beats, Clark Coolidge's poetry is ultimately like nothing but itself."
— Choice