Today we're highlighting a just-added recording from poet Clark Coolidge. Recorded on April 4, 2013 at New York City's Poets House, Coolidge's talk "The Painter’s Poet" is concerned with his longtime friend and collaborator (on 1991's Baffling Means: Writing/Drawing), Philip Guston.
Here's how Poets House originally described the event:
Experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge discusses Philip Guston’s passion for poetry and wordplay as evidenced by the painter’s extraordinary series of poem-pictures, which incorporate poems by William Corbett and Stanley Kunitz, among others, against the backdrop of their friendship, collaborations and Guston’s Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations, which Coolidge edited.
Running just shy of eighty minutes, Coolidge's talk comes to us courtesy of Gryphon Rue. Listen to it now on our Clark Coolidge author page, which is home to a startling array of recordings — of readings, lectures, panel talks, interviews, podcast appearances, and more — spanning five decades.
