Mesh

by Clark Coolidge

POETRY.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Coolidge attended Brown University, where his father taught in the music department. After moving to New York City in the early 1960s, Coolidge cultivated links with Ted Berrigan and Bernadette Mayer. Often associated with the Language School his experience as a jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dalí, Jack Kerouac and movies, Coolidge often finds correspondence in his work. Coolidge grew up in Providence, Rhode Island and has lived, among other places, in Manhattan, Cambridge (MA), San Francisco, Rome (Italy), and the Berkshire Hills. He currently lives in Petaluma, California.

Reviews

[W.B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book of poetry is sexual as fuck. It might be hetero (I'm not really sure) but at least it's not "hetero-normative." Mind, like fishnet stockings, is mesh and sex is what oozes through in language like this. Slurp it up.