Tom Clark describes himself as an artist "living along the inter-dimensional rift zone of a society caught between its future in the realm of electronic magic and its past in the spell-casting of the caves." In Disordered Ideas , his poetry is like an exquisitely sensitive seismograph: the needle jumps across the page, making a manic record of every quake, slip, and near-disaster along the postmodern-communications fault line. He derides the new media, the isolating, enervating "brave new work" we do in front of computer ...
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Tom Clark describes himself as an artist "living along the inter-dimensional rift zone of a society caught between its future in the realm of electronic magic and its past in the spell-casting of the caves." In Disordered Ideas , his poetry is like an exquisitely sensitive seismograph: the needle jumps across the page, making a manic record of every quake, slip, and near-disaster along the postmodern-communications fault line. He derides the new media, the isolating, enervating "brave new work" we do in front of computer screens, and the death of the personal in the digital age. Indeed, the only digits he has any use for are the five that make up the human hand: he revels in man-made artifacts, especially paintings and stories and poems. His topical verse is satiric and humorous, but when he writes about what he admires--the canvases of Caspar David Friedrich, the renunciations of Rimbaud, the political aphorisms of Brecht, his poems can seize the heart.
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Edition:
1st Paperback Edition / 1st Printing Used
Publisher:
Black Sparrow Press
Published:
1987
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
11223236326
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Very Good. No Jacket As Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" First paperback edition / First printing. Very good, Slight soiling to covers. 15 x 22. soft cover. 179pp.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Foxing on topedge, else near fine in a very good publisher's acetate dust jacket with creases on the spine. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Clark.
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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Hard cover in clear dust jacket. cloth-backed paper-covered boards with paper label on spine., some rubbing to clear dj. no other flaws or wear. clean, no markings. tight binding. no bumps, tears, fading.; this is number 104 from the signed edition of 150 copies. signed by tom clark under the limitation.; 202pp., poetry.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Book shows very light wear along top and bottom board edges. Acetate dust jacket shows some bubbling along spine. 202 p. Sewn binding. Pictorial paper over boards. Acetate dust jacket. Book is straight with solid binding and clean text. Numbered and signed on colophon by Tom Clark. #10 of 150 copies printed.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Hardcover in clear dust jacket., a few, faint, sparse dust-spots to bottom edge, fewer yet to top edge. no other flaws. clean. no markings. no bumps, tear. tight binding.; this is one of 26 lettered (H) copies, bound by earle gray and signed by the author with a drawing of three rodents that appear to be in free-fall.; 202pp. poetry.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. 202 p. Sewn binding. Pictorial boards. Acetate dust jacket. Book is straight with tight binding and clean text. Signed by Tom Clark opposite title page with lines of poetry in Clark's hand. One of 250 trade copies.
