Tom Clark (poet)

Tom Clark (March 1, 1941 – August 18, 2018, aged 77) was an American poet, editor and biographer.^[1]

Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago, and attended Fenwick High School in Oak Park. After high school, he attended the University of Michigan, where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. He then won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake graduate study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in England (1963-5), before spending further time pursuing doctoral research (on the advice of Donald Davie) at the newly-established University of Essex.^{[2] [3]} It was while in Britain that Clark famously hitchhiked through Somerset in the company of Allen Ginsberg.^[3]

On March 22, 1968, he married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York City.^[4]

Clark was poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1963 to 1973, and published numerous volumes of poetry with Black Sparrow Press, including a verse biography: Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats (1994). His literary essays and reviews appeared in The New York Times , The Times Literary Supplement , Los Angeles Times , San Francisco Chronicle , London Review of Books , and many other journals. Some of his essays on contemporary poetry were collected in The Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties. From 1987 to 2008, he taught poetics at New College of California.^{[5] [failed verification ]}

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).

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] [7]}

• 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. Black Sparrow Press. August 1974. 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 Ed Dorn . Cadmus Editions. November 1980. ISBN 978-0932274175.
• Paradise Resisted: Selected Poems 1978-1984. Black Sparrow Press. May 1, 1984. ISBN 978-0876856116.
• The Border: Poem and Drawings . Coffee House Press. 1985. 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 John Keats . Black Sparrow Press. January 1, 1994. 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. Coffee House Press. April 1, 2006. 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. BlazeVOX Books. February 11, 2010. 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.

• The World of Damon Runyon . Harper & Row. 1978. ISBN 978-0060107710.
• The Great Naropa Poetry Wars . Cadmus Editions. 1980. ISBN 978-0932274069.
• Late Returns: A Memoir of Ted Berrigan . Tombouctou Books. 1985. ISBN 978-0939180356.
• Kerouac's Last Word: Jack Kerouac in Escapade. Water Row Books. February 1987. ISBN 978-0934953078.
• Jack Kerouac: A Biography. Paragon House. December 1990. ISBN 978-1557783080.
• Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life. W. W. Norton & Company. April 1991. ISBN 978-0393029581.
• Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography. New Directions. November 1, 1993. ISBN 978-0811212502.
• Edward Dorn: A World of Difference. North Atlantic Books. March 21, 2002. ISBN 978-1556433979.
• Jim Carroll . Longhouse Press. 2010. ASIN B003AONG7W.

• The Master. Pentagram Press. 1979.
• Who Is Sylvia?. Blue Wind Press. 1979.
• The Last Gas Station & Other Stories. Black Sparrow Press. June 1, 1980. ISBN 978-0876854563.
• Heartbreak Hotel. Toothpaste Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0915124572.
• The Exile of Céline . Random House. Jan 12, 1987. ISBN 978-0394553122.
• The Spell: A Romance. Black Sparrow Press. Jan 1, 2000. ISBN 978-1574231243.

• The Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties . University of Michigan Press. September 1990. ISBN 978-0472094288.
• Problems of Thought: Paradoxical Essays. Effing/Skanky Possum. 2009.

• Champagne and Baloney: The Rise and Fall of Finley's A's . Harper & Row. 1976. ISBN 978-0060108328.
• No Big Deal: Mark Fidrych Interviewed by Tom Clark. Lippincott. 1977. 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.

• 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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