Background
Clark, Thomas Willard was born on March 1, 1941 in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Son of Arthur Willard and Rita Mary (Kearin) Clark.
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Jack Kerouac: A Biography
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All the components of the Jack Kerouac legend are here: the excesses of alcohol and drugs; the soul searching; the characters—Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr, John Clellon Holmes and William Burroughs, Jack's mother, Gabrielle, and the other women in Kerouac's life. There is also a record of the travels that became the basis for On the Road and Visions of Cody, the death-shrouded childhood that became Mexico City Blues and Tristessa, and the stupor of fame that weighed on him as he tried to articulate his torments in Big Sur. This edition is newly revised with a new introduction by the author.
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The Sand Burg
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Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place
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Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography
(An illuminating, interactive biographical essay culled fr...)
An illuminating, interactive biographical essay culled from conversations between Creeley and Clark together with Creeley's own Autobiography (1990), a talk he gave on poetry and the commonplace at New College of California (1991), and many personal photographs of himself and family and friends.
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- Jack Kerouac: A biography
- Jack Kerouac: A Biography (This illustrated biography focuses on one of the major na...)
- Late Returns, a Memoir of Ted Berrigan
- Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography by Clark, Tom ( Author ) Paperback Nov- 1993 (Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Plac...)
Thomas Willard Clark
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Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1963; student, Cambridge (England) University, 1963-1965; student, University Essex, England, 1965-1967.
Career
Currently (as of 2013) residing in California, 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).
Works
book
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Jack Kerouac: A Biography
( All the components of the Jack Kerouac legend are here:...)
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Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography
(An illuminating, interactive biographical essay culled fr...)
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Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography by Clark, Tom ( Author ) Paperback Nov- 1993
(Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Plac...)
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Jack Kerouac: A Biography
(This illustrated biography focuses on one of the major na...)
- Jack Kerouac: A biography
- Late Returns, a Memoir of Ted Berrigan
- The Sand Burg
- Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place
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Jack Kerouac: A Biography
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Son of Arthur Willard and Rita Mary (Kearin) C. M. Angelica Louise Heinegg, March 21, 1968. 1 daughter, Juliet.
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Fulbright fellow, 1963-1965. Rockefeller fellow, 1967-1968. Guggenheim fellow, 1970-1971. National Education Association grantee, 1985. Recipient Bess Hokin Prize for Poetry, 1966, Poets Foundation award, 1978, George Dillon Memorial Prize for Poetry, 1968.Fulbright fellow, 1963-1965. Rockefeller fellow, 1967-1968. Guggenheim fellow, 1970-1971.
National Education Association grantee, 1985. Recipient Bess Hokin Prize for Poetry, 1966, Poets Foundation award, 1978, George Dillon Memorial Prize for Poetry, 1968.