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A Poetry Reading by Clark Coolidge ()

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Clark Coolidge reads a number of his poems, many of which were unpublished at the time of this recording. Coolidge, was perhaps more than any other person, responsible for inspiring the entire experimental field of Language Poetry, which became popular among avant-garde, mostly American poets, during the 1960s and 70s. This type of poetry was partially inspired by the work of Gertrude Stein, John Cage, and others who sometimes used mathematical sequences and other aleatoric or logical constructs to organize their poetry or music. The work of the Language Poets often forced the audience to participate in the extraction or creation of meaning from the text, separate from the authors intent. This reading occurred in April or May of an undetermined year (but probably in the 1970s) at the home of Michael Palmer, 17 Beaver Street in San Francisco.


This audio is part of the collection: Other Minds Audio Archive
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Date: 0000-00-00
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Spoken Word; Poetry; Clark Coolidge

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

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