"Clark Coolidge is a one-man avant-garde."—Peter GizziClark Coolidge's embrace of the sonnet form is a gemlike amalgam of narrative urge, wacky name-dropping, and pure visuality. Coolidge's legendary proliferation—as many as ten sonnets in a single day—marries the stunning variety of his intellect on the mountaintop of formal inquiry."LIBRARY OF HAY"So slow death oft the onyx dollseach in its own lab colors rollicking encoreswho's there? do you want your museumroom infiltrated? only the singing partsterrible loss of air raid powderentanglements poled on kapokthe last to be heard? this ploy of dollsirradiated heads and curls of coffin wooddeath is always plural here? stolidanyway someway still enters the frontwaythrough the water door to Manikin Lakethe throttles held down there you went tohair school against my wisdom thus theremnants spelled out there then coded thereClark Coolidge was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Though associated with the Language Poets, his work predates the movement and despite close contact with many of them he remains distinct from any movement, literary or political. The author of more than twenty books of verse and prose, he is also the editor of Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations.