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Tom Clark

Poet, Former Poetry Editor of "The Paris Review"

Poet, Former Poetry Editor of "The Paris Review"

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Tom Clark Biography

Tom Clark (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet, editor and biographer. Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. On March 22, 1968, he married Angelica Heinegg, at St. Mark’s Church, New York City. Tom Clark's recent books of poetry are "Light & Shade: New and Selected Poems" (Coffee House, 2006) and "Threnody" (effing press, 2006)

Clark served as poetry editor of The Paris Review from 1963 to 1973 and published numerous volumes of poetry with Black Sparrow Press, including a verse biography: "Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats" (1994). His literary essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, London Review of Books, and many other journals; some of his essays on contemporary poetry have been collected in "The Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties". From 1987 to 2008 he taught Poetics at New College of California.

Currently residing in California, Clark remains an active writer producing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. In 1991, he published a biography of Charles Olson, one of his poetic mentors, entitled "Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life" (Norton: 1991).

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Tom Clark Books

  • Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump
    Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump
  • Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems
    Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems
  • Edward Dorn: A World of Difference
    Edward Dorn: A World of Difference

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