"I think it probably started when I first made contact with Tom Clark. He was in England at graduate school and he asked me to be in a magazine he was starting. We somehow began talking about rock music and he subsequently sent me 45s by The Cream and Jimi Hendrix Experience, both groups being unknown to me."
"When I moved to San Francisco to join the Serpent Power, I became part of the early San Francisco psychedelic scene and mailed Tom LPs by Big Brother And The Holding Company, with Janis Joplin, and The Great Society, with Grace Slick."
Clark Coolidge is an experimental American poet who maintains a deliberately analog lifestyle, using a typewriter and landline telephone while residing in Petaluma, California. His artistic influences span Samuel Beckett, Jack Kerouac, jazz, classical music, and geology. Coolidge is a classically trained percussionist who performed with composer Alvin Curran and played in the psychedelic rock band Serpent Power. He collaborated with poet Tom Clark on Rock Notes, a manuscript begun in the 1960s when Clark, studying in England, introduced Coolidge to rock music through records by The Cream and Jimi Hendrix. The collaboration deepened when Coolidge joined San Francisco's psychedelic scene and reciprocated by sending Clark albums by Big Brother and The Holding Company and The Great Society. Lithic Press recently published this legendary phantom text from the New York School of Poetry.
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