[New-Poetry] Tom Clark on BookSlut

[John Latta]

Just a note. Dale Smith (of the Marsupial Inquirer column at Bookslut) is 
a _he_--a fine poet, too, and editor, with Hoa Nguyen, of Skanky Possum 
books (and erstwhile magazine). He blogs here:

http://possumego.blogspot.com/

Tom Clark blogs here:

http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/


On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, jforjames at aol.com wrote:

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> Her claim for Clark pays homage to his seminal influence on the poetics of the 1970s, and she finds in him “one of the great poet/ painters of California and the American West” for whom “the truest beauty of all turns out to be that of form.”
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> The attention to form remains evident his most recent book of selected poems, Light & Shade. Clark plays over his linguistic surfaces with great skill, tempting a reader to engage the poem's facade, but beneath this many forces are at work that render greater depth. Because he is a master lyricist we are often left by poem’s end apprehending a process that leaves us hanging in the air, with no great certainty.
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