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The Cave is a collaboration of prose, poetry, dialogue, and song alternately written by Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer in their early thirties. Assembled between 1972 and 1978, The Cave explores the philosophy of Wittgenstein, the nature of language, and the connections between the present and past. It constantly challenges the reader to question reality, time, and the poets themselves. The work ranges from complex and imagistic rambles through imaginary landscapes to terse, clear accounts of exploring Eldon’s Cave in western Massachusetts, the setting of several of Coolidge’s poems. Like a mystery novel, The Cave draws the reader in with hints that all the strands weave together into a coherent picture.

Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer have been writing for over fifty years, and they have both had an unquantifiable impact on the direction of experimental poetry. In the words of Marcella Durand, who provides an introduction to The Cave, “Coolidge and Mayer evidently shared a common mission in their writings to encompass consciousness, language, and the intricacy of physical/scientific/geologic structures, and to cross whatever fake borders had been set up between genres, materials, or even words themselves.”

Clark Coolidge lives in Petaluma, California. His most recent books include Far Out West, published by Adventures in Poetry, and Bomb, a collaboration with Keith Waldrop, published by Granary Books.

Bernadette Mayer has experimented with numerous forms of media, including film, collage, stories, and poems. Her most recent books include Scarlet Tanager and A Bernadette Mayer Reader, both published by New Directions.

21. Postmodern Poetry: The Talisman Interviews : William Bronk, Clark Coolidge, Anselm Hollo, Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, L by Edward Halsey Foster
	Paperback: 174 Pages (1994-03) list price: US$12.95 Isbn: 1883689104 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

22. Drawings from the Philip Guston and Clark Coolidge Exchange by Debra Bricker Balken
	Paperback: Pages (1990) Asin: B0045VAN3Y Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

24. This Time We Are Both by Clark Coolidge
	Paperback: 96 Pages (2010-10-01) list price: US$15.00 -- used & new: US$15.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1933254629 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description Poetry. Written in 1991, this previously unpublished work dates back to the publication of such seminal books as The Crystal Text, AT EGYPT, and ODES OF ROBA. Based on his trips to St. Petersburg, THIS TIME WE ARE BOTH uses a dense stream-of-conscious style that employs a fragmentary, often reverse syntax that is a hallmark of Coolidge's poetics. Phrases and images leaps between lines to evoke a heady mix of anxiety and paranoia that document and respond to the collapse of the Soviet Union and a city on the verge of starvation and deterioration. Publication of this title made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. ... Read more

25. The Cave (Adventures in Poetry) by Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer
	Paperback: 128 Pages (2008-05-01) list price: US$16.00 -- used & new: US$29.98 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0976161257 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description The Cave is a collaboration of prose, poetry, dialogue, and song alternately written by Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer in their early thirties. Assembled between 1972 and 1978, The Cave explores the philosophy of Wittgenstein, the nature of language, and the connections between the present and past. It constantly challenges the reader to question reality, time, and the poets themselves. The work ranges from complex and imagistic rambles through imaginary landscapes to terse, clear accounts of exploring Eldon’s Cave in western Massachusetts, the setting of several of Coolidge’s poems. Like a mystery novel, The Cave draws the reader in with hints that all the strands weave together into a coherent picture. Clark Coolidge and Bernadette Mayer have been writing for over fifty years, and they have both had an unquantifiable impact on the direction of experimental poetry. In the words of Marcella Durand, who provides an introduction to The Cave, “Coolidge and Mayer evidently shared a common mission in their writings to encompass consciousness, language, and the intricacy of physical/scientific/geologic structures, and to cross whatever fake borders had been set up between genres, materials, or even words themselves.” Clark Coolidge lives in Petaluma, California. His most recent books include Far Out West, published by Adventures in Poetry, and Bomb, a collaboration with Keith Waldrop, published by Granary Books. Bernadette Mayer has experimented with numerous forms of media, including film, collage, stories, and poems. Her most recent books include Scarlet Tanager and A Bernadette Mayer Reader, both published by New Directions. ... Read more

26. Talisman 3: Coolidge Issue. by Clark]. Foster, Edward. ed. [COOLIDGE
	Paperback: Pages (1989) Asin: B001VEFI6U Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

27. Lowell Connector by Clark Coolidge
	Paperback: 144 Pages (2001-03) list price: US$12.95 Isbn: 0963843303 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

28. Smithsonian Depositions and Subject to a Film by Clark Coolidge
	Hardcover: 84 Pages (1980-12) list price: US$10.00 Isbn: 0931428300 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

29. LOWELL CONNECTOR: Lines and Shots from Kerouac's Town by Clark, Michael Gizzi, John Yau, Bill Barrette and Celia Coolidge. COOLIDGE
	Paperback: Pages (1993) Asin: B001VEDEYI Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

30. United Artists One by Bernadette & Lewis Warsh (eds.); Clark Coolidge; Paul Metcalf Mayer
	Paperback: Pages (1977-01-01) Asin: B001VE2E0I Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

31. Human Means Volume 1 Number 2 by Clark, Mayer, Bernadette, North, Charles, et al Coolidge
	Paperback: Pages (1986) Asin: B00467H8F8 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

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32. THIS 10 - Winter 1979-1980 by Barrett (Editor); Bob Perelman, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, Clark Coolidge, et al. (Contributors) WATTEN
	Paperback: Pages (1980) Asin: B002VMJMMW Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

34. Columbia Poetry Review Number 7 (Columbia College/Chicago, Spring 1994) by Ray DiPalma, Clark Coolidge, Carla Harryman, Jack Myers, Elizabeth Alexander, Yvonne Zipter, Elizabeth Cross, Edward Kleinschmidt, Jennifer Martenson, Joshua McKinney
	Paperback: 97 Pages (1994) Isbn: 0932026354 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description Columbia Poetry Review Number 7 (Columbia College/Chicago, Spring 1994). Paperback edited by Jessica Cohen, Bryan Tsikouris, and Conrad Wells. ... Read more

33. The book of during by Clark Coolidge
	Paperback: 238 Pages (1991) Asin: B0000CP26P Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

35. THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER. by Pat Nolan Christopher Isherwood. Clark Coolidge
	Paperback: Pages (1982) Asin: B0041L2MFK Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

36. The Crystal Text by Clark Coolidge
	Unknown Binding: Pages (1985) Asin: B0049RJLE6 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

37. Space by Clark Coolidge
	Unknown Binding: 120 Pages (1970) Asin: B0006CPJXA Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

38. SPACE by Clark COOLIDGE
	Hardcover: Pages (1970) Asin: B00482KCXG Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

39. Quartz Hearts by Clark Coolidge
	Paperback: 54 Pages (1978) Isbn: 0935074082 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

40. Alien Tatters by Clark Coolidge
	Paperback: 202 Pages (2000-01-01) list price: US$12.95 -- used & new: US$12.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1891190083 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description Prose. Poetry. ALIEN TATTERS is a series of prose poem meditations in response to (someone's) sightings of UFOs and encounters with aliens. The writer has been/is being abducted. The writings are the situation's tatters, its tatterings. Inevitably funny (except perhaps to the true believer), the work is also sad and scary. Lights came. My god, blobs. A sneaky little rill. Bought them a box of shoes made of chocolate. Small silver wire, challenge kit. The Frenchman walks off into the noise with his girl. From the bottom of the craft, enough darkness to fill, replace all our missing nights? ... Read more