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A Book Beginning What and Ending Away

by Clark Coolidge

Fence. 2013. 560p. ISBN 9781934200605. pap. $24.95.

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A formidable book-length poem, this is possibly veteran experimental poet Coolidge's major opus (if there is such a thing). The journey between what and away consists of a number of subjects dear to Coolidge—caves, Samuel Beckett, music, Robert Creeley, geology, Salvador Dalí, weather, Bernadette Mayer, movies, etc. And away we go! You can pull, Coolidge doesn't break.—AP

Reviewed by Annalisa Pesek , Apr 15, 2013

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