Tom Clark (1) (1941–2018)

Author of Jack Kerouac: A Biography

For other authors named Tom Clark, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Tom Clark was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 1, 1941. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1963 where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. He was a poet, biographer, novelist, dramatist, reviewer, and sportswriter. He contributed to Poetry magazine and was a former poetry editor show more of the Paris Review. His books included Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats; Jack Kerouac: A Biography; Sleepwalkers Fate: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1991; Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life; Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems; and Champagne and Baloney: The Rise and Fall of Finley's A's. He was fatally struck by motorist and died on August 18, 2018 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Tom Clark

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Jack Kerouac: A Biography (1984) 98 copies

Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life (1991) 57 copies

Rock Hudson: Friend of Mine (1989) 30 copies

Queries & Submissions (Elements of Article Writing) (1995) 25 copies

Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems (2006) 22 copies

Champagne and baloney: The rise and fall of Finley's A's (1605) 19 copies

The Last Gas Station & Other Stories (1980) 16 copies

The great Naropa poetry wars (1980) 16 copies

The Exile of Celine (1986) 15 copies

Sleepwalker's Fate: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1991 (1992) 15 copies

Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats (1993) 13 copies

Easter Sunday (1987) 11 copies

Edward Dorn: A World of Difference (2002) 11 copies

The World of Damon Runyon (1978) 10 copies

Paradise Resisted: Selected Poems 1978-1984 (1984) 10 copies

Stones (1969) 10 copies

The Spell: A Romance (2000) 9 copies

Fractured Karma (1990) 9 copies

When Things Get Tough on Easy Street: Selected Poems, 1963-1978 (1978) 8 copies

Late Returns, a Memoir of Ted Berrigan (1985) 8 copies

Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography (1993) 7 copies

Like Real People (1995) 7 copies

Blue (1974) 7 copies

One last round for the Shuffler (1979) 6 copies

Kerouac's Last Word: Jack Kerouac in Escapade (1987) 6 copies

Fan poems (1976) 5 copies

Who Is Sylvia? (1979) 5 copies

Re-active Anthology: The Tempers of Hazard No. 3 (Paladin re/active anthology) (1993) 5 copies

All Stars (1972) 5 copies

Empire of Skin (1997) 5 copies

White Thought (Lingo Books) (Lingo Books) (1995) 4 copies

Threnody 4 copies

Air (1970) 4 copies

Cold Spring : A Diary (2000) 3 copies

Disordered Ideas (1987) 3 copies

At the Fair (2010) 3 copies

Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties (Poets on Poetry) (1990) 3 copies

Feeling for the Ground (2010) 2 copies

Zombie Dawn (2003) 2 copies

Baseball. (1976) 2 copies

Worldmaking : literature, language, culture (2017) 2 copies

Painter Among Poets: The Collaborative Art Of George Schneeman (2004) 2 copies

Smack (1972) 2 copies

A Short Guide to The High Plains. With an introduction by Ed Dorn. (1981) 2 copies

Neil Young 2 copies

John's Heart (1972) 2 copies

The End of the Line 2 copies

Back in Boston again 2 copies

Intervista con Allen Ginsberg 2 copies

Jack Kerouac in San Francisco 2 copies

The Master (1979) 2 copies

Sonnet 1 copy

Am Here Books, In the Beginning Was The Word, Catalogue Five 1981/82, A Collection of Post-Modern Poetry Books,… 1 copy

Jim Carroll 1 copy

The Writer's Handbook of Novel Writing 1 copy

Truth Game (2013) 1 copy

Heartbreak Hotel (1981) 1 copy

Car wash 1 copy

Bun 1 copy

Altered Steaks - A Colloquium on the Cattle Mutilation Question 1 copy

Somewhere in the West - A Riddle 1 copy

The gang of eight 1 copy

SPARROW 27: Chicago (1974) 1 copy

SPARROW 17: Suite (1974) 1 copy

The Rodent Who Came to Dinner. 1 copy

The New World (2010) 1 copy

Apocalyptic Talkshow 1 copy

Something in the Air (2010) 1 copy

How I Broke In and Six Modern Masters (1977) 1 copy

The sand burg: poems 1 copy

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Associated Works

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Contributor — 357 copies

The Best American Poetry 2002 (2002) — Contributor — 180 copies

The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993) — Contributor — 127 copies

The Best American Poetry 2010 (2010) — Contributor — 117 copies

Poetry (1962) — Contributor — 46 copies

Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998: Volume 2 - Fictions, Travels & Translations (1999) — Contributor — 39 copies

Poetry Magazine Vol. 205 No. 3, December 2014 (2014) — Contributor — 6 copies

Stooge Thirteen, Spring 1975 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Legal name: Clark, Thomas Willard
Birthdate: 1941-03-01
Date of death: 2018-08-17
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Place of death: Oakland, California, USA
Places of residence: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Manhattan, New York, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Education: University of Michigan
Occupations: poet
biographer
editor
sportswriter
blogger
Organizations: The Paris Review

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The great Naropa poetry wars : with a copious… by Tom Clark

Scandalous goings-on by the great and not-so-great in religion and poetry at the Naropa Poetic Institute: in particular Buddhist Lama Chogyam Trugpa vs. W. S. Merwin. If this had been a bar fight on Saturday night in a California oil town, it would have been more understandable.

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Tsoys | Aug 9, 2013 |

Blue by Tom Clark

Very much poetry of its time. A lot of sports refeernces (the title rfers to Vida Blue), occasional vulgarity, some nice nature descriptions. All te poems are very shoprt an interspersed with some nice line drawings. I like the one of a woman sitting with a cat.

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antiquary | Jul 22, 2011 |