Far out west / Clark Coolidge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coolidge, Clark, 1939-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

52 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Adventures in Poetry, [2001]

Summary:

39 poems of humour and duress, written while attending to remnants of my childhood on satellite waves, realizing an inherent wackiness in these accounts of men descending from horses before buttes or saloons, speaking lines like 'This town got a sawbones?' or 'I reckon not' (see Kerouac's Old Western Movies). Some of these films notorious even respected (Johnny Guitar) but mostly workmanlike Cassidys from the late Thirties, unexpectedly gorgeous in their black & white Lone Pine vistas and spirited inertias of 'Saddle up boys Hoppy needs ya!' They had me so dreaming that I took aim and wrote. Or wrote without hardly aiming to, one.

Contents:

River of No Concern 11

Bad Hand Territory 12

Brand What 13

Far Out West 14

Right About the Running Woman 16

Down Too Many Barrels 18

The Price of Scabies 20

All Dressed Out in Storm (A Charnel Whip) 21

Pegleg Holdem's Death 22

You Don't Tell Me 23

Professor Hepburn Rides Again 24

A Plain Load of Dumb Luck 25

For a Decent Man You Sure Get a Hardon Sherif 26

The Battle for the Cotton Reserves 27

Hands Up So Far 28

The Grimace at Stone Junction 29

Outlaw with Sand 30

The Rash Components of Skip Homeier 31

The Puissance of String Ties 32

Riders of the Boards 33

Earnest Tampers 34

Trustworthy Locator with Dog 35

Town Gone Off (Rocks Made out of Raisins) 36

The Drawbacks of a Riderless Valley 37

The Big Sundry 38

Cattle on Horseback (a Methodical Thinness) 39

Higher Saddles and Shorter Ladders 40

Only Possibilities 41

Occasion Killer 42

From the Cimarron Sandhills 43

I Said the Duck 44

Doubletalk on Tumbler's Flats 45

A Moon Obscured by Clowns 46

Stealers Way Wide 47

Gun Play on an Empty Stage 48

Jawbone Shovels 49

This Yarn Needs a Slippery Finish (Noise of the Pickoff Boys) 50

Hombre Your Installments Are Showing 51

Land of the Passing Strange 52.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

0970625049

OCLC:

49207581