The Crystal Text Coolidge Clark
Clark Coolidge's book-length meditation on a crystal--long considered a masterpiece of American avant-garde poetry--returns in a new edition. "For [Coolidge], the crystal becomes a magic mirror that…
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Clark Coolidge's book-length meditation on a crystal--long considered a masterpiece of American avant-garde poetry--returns in a new edition. "For [Coolidge], the crystal becomes a magic mirror that transforms the questioner's own visage into an oracular mask, mouthing riddles and giving back the questions themselves as mirrorreversed answers."--Andrew Joron, author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems "No other poet ever has so exquisitely, and sometimes also turbulently, written sheer sonic wonder into poetry."--Lyn Hejinian, author of My Life and My Life in the NinetiesIn the summer of 1982, Clark Coolidge received an unexpected gift of a crystal; small, clear, entirely unexceptional, the crystal nonetheless provoked the poet into writing what has long been considered his masterpiece, The Crystal Text (1986). A