[New-Poetry] Tom Clark on BookSlut

[jforjames at aol.com]

The 'Her' is Elaine Equi, also a fine poet, quoted from the Bookslut piece.


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From: John Latta <lattaj at umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Tom Clark on BookSlut


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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> http://www.bookslut.com/marsupial_inquirer/2009_04_014323.php 
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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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