skip to main
|
skip to sidebar
TOM CLARK
Beyond the Pale
Please note that the poems and essays on this site are copyright and may not be reproduced without the author's permission.
Thursday, 23 April 2009
So Long
.
Dempsey and Firpo
: George Bellows, 1924
Life with its heart down on its hands and knees
Has wasted so much time and lost
90% of the big ones for so long it’s not
Worth it, no, I don’t care what you say
Said the champion
Taking the Count
: Thomas Eakins, 1898
.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Newer Post
Older Post
Home
View mobile version
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Contents Pages
contents
more contents
yet more contents
contents 4
Blog Archive
►
2018
(223)
►
August
(16)
►
July
(31)
►
June
(30)
►
May
(32)
►
April
(29)
►
March
(30)
►
February
(28)
►
January
(27)
►
2017
(298)
►
December
(26)
►
November
(19)
►
October
(19)
►
September
(15)
►
August
(19)
►
July
(24)
►
June
(28)
►
May
(31)
►
April
(30)
►
March
(30)
►
February
(28)
►
January
(29)
►
2016
(317)
►
December
(27)
►
November
(26)
►
October
(25)
►
September
(28)
►
August
(30)
►
July
(28)
►
June
(28)
►
May
(27)
►
April
(28)
►
March
(27)
►
February
(24)
►
January
(19)
►
2015
(252)
►
December
(11)
►
November
(15)
►
October
(17)
►
September
(23)
►
August
(23)
►
July
(28)
►
June
(26)
►
May
(19)
►
April
(21)
►
March
(23)
►
February
(23)
►
January
(23)
►
2014
(307)
►
December
(26)
►
November
(27)
►
October
(25)
►
September
(18)
►
August
(22)
►
July
(29)
►
June
(28)
►
May
(25)
►
April
(26)
►
March
(26)
►
February
(25)
►
January
(30)
►
2013
(293)
►
December
(27)
►
November
(25)
►
October
(20)
►
September
(23)
►
August
(15)
►
July
(20)
►
June
(24)
►
May
(28)
►
April
(28)
►
March
(30)
►
February
(25)
►
January
(28)
►
2012
(355)
►
December
(29)
►
November
(26)
►
October
(28)
►
September
(32)
►
August
(31)
►
July
(33)
►
June
(31)
►
May
(35)
►
April
(17)
►
March
(29)
►
February
(31)
►
January
(33)
►
2011
(474)
►
December
(41)
►
November
(35)
►
October
(39)
►
September
(31)
►
August
(25)
►
July
(35)
►
June
(36)
►
May
(41)
►
April
(50)
►
March
(53)
►
February
(39)
►
January
(49)
►
2010
(537)
►
December
(35)
►
November
(39)
►
October
(38)
►
September
(49)
►
August
(35)
►
July
(44)
►
June
(46)
►
May
(57)
►
April
(55)
►
March
(61)
►
February
(35)
►
January
(43)
▼
2009
(419)
►
December
(37)
►
November
(28)
►
October
(44)
►
September
(34)
►
August
(35)
►
July
(35)
►
June
(64)
►
May
(51)
▼
April
(49)
Hope
A Une Jeune Fille
Under the Fortune Palms
In the Shadow of the Mission
Off Goleta
The Class Doesn't Struggle Anymore
Momentum
Bookmark
Zidane
Sunflowers
Les Etoiles
The Lyric
As the Human Village Prepares for Its Fate
"I"'s
Day Detail--Low Light of Afternoon
Last Chance
So Long
Little Bang
Little Hymn to Athene
Friedrich's Dream
Eternity Time Share Rebus
Nodding
Subject
Talk Gets Old
Paper People
The Nelsons in San Roque
The Muses' Exodus
Light Sleeper
The Big Cigars
Brainards
Eos
Walking Out
View
Statue
Antiquarian
Musing
I Was Born To Speak Your Name
The Last Poem (after Robert Desnos)
Melancholy Watch, the Downs (September 1820)
Premonitory (Teignmouth, Spring 1818)
It Is Getting Late (May 1819)
Recurrence (April 1819)
Elegy
Prolepsis
April Fools
Ah -- there
Easter Sunday
Scroll
Poverty
►
March
(25)
►
February
(17)
2014-2015 FAVOURITES
Wallace Stevens: THinking of a Relation between the Images of Metaphors
Robert Creeley: For Debora
Crude
Black Wave (Pacific Melt)
The Jews of Asia
The only moment we have is right now
Rohingya: Adrift
A seemingly insatiable demand
Its horn more precious than gold
Marianne Moore: The Pangolin
Lorenzo Thomas: Inauguration
O-o-h Child
"Time rotates..."
Origami
Baltimore
Little Girl
Foreigners
Gag Reflex: Federico García Lorca: Paisaje de la multitud que vomita (Anochecer en Coney Island)
Edwin Denby / Weegee: In Public, In Private (In the Tunnel of Love and Death)
Private moment: If you could read my mind
Pay-To-Play Killer Cop: The Death of Eric Harris, the Black Holocaust and 'Bad' History in Oklahoma
Yarmouk: 'I Am Not a Statistic'
How it went down for Thabo: NYPD chokeslam, broken leg, plain sight perpwalk show -- American dream glass half full?
America: Structural: This is how it's going down
Jim Dine: 'When Creeley met Pep' (simply a doll to love)
Forugh Farrokhzad: The Wind Will Carry Us / Street Art Iran: Nafir (Scream)
wraith
George Herbert: I got me flowers
Luna de Sangre: Hasbara Moon ("And Then We Were Free")
The Ritual Aspect
Fear of Television
Archives
Unearthly Beauty
Frank O'Hara: On Dealing with the Canada Question
Beyond Gaming
Sy Hersh: My Lai Revisited: "We were carying the war very hard to them"
Rires of Spring: Fire
Open Arms
Hilton Obenzinger: Treyf Pesach
Mahmoud Darwish: Words
Being Boring
King of the Grifters
End of the World Cinema: Daring To Be the Same / The Commanders
The Avenger (Lorine Niedecker: "A monster owl...")
Cottonmouth
Peckerwood Diplomacy
Samuel Beckett: My Family
Jim Dine: My Letter to the Troops
Aram Saroyan: Old People
Where Is the House of the Friend?
Wislawa Szymborska: Some like poetry
Bertolt Brecht: Die Musen / The Muses
Almost Time Now
William Carlos Williams / Dorothea Lange: The Descent
Poetry and Extreme Weather Events: William McGonagall: The Tay Bridge Disaster
A Voice from Troy
Camilo José Vergara: When Everything Fails (Repurposing Salvation in America's Urban Ruins)
Love Songs
Craig Stephen Hicks, Angry White Men and Falling Down
American Terror
Leaving Debaltseve: "The whole town is destroyed"
Flann O'Brien: Is it about a bicycle?
William Carlos Williams: The Thing
Just a perfect day for global epic reflection
Fashion Week
Wislawa Szymborska: Utopia
Balls
New Moon (Not Dark Yet)
Tom Clark: Evening Train
Projections of a Dream
Mohamedou Ould Slahi: Guantánamo Diary
Philip Larkin: Kid Stuff
Inside the No-Go Zone: Exploring the Hidden Secrets of the Brum Caliphate ("83 outfits on the 8:30 train from Selly Oak")
Crusaders -- they're all Charlies
Je Suis Virunga
Thomas Campion: Now winter nights enlarge
Migratory: 'We are alone'
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle): Euripides: The Chorus to Iphigeneia
Robert Herrick: To his saviour. The New yeers gift
Dishonorable
Blank Space
You (V) (Hölderlin)
The most patriotic picture ever taken of me
Nancy Morejón: Tobacco Worker
We'll Leave a Light On
Blending In (Lunar Impersonation)
Polar Bears: The Big Sleep ("Is the white bear worth seeing?")
Robert Walser: The Battle of Sempach
Simon Schuchat: Lion
An 'Act of War'
Pablo Neruda: Keeping Quiet
Philae Lander: Fade Out / Frantz Fanon: The End of the European Game
Grapefruit Moon with Murmurations
No one to rock the cradle (Nazim Hikmet: You must live with great seriousness, like a squirrel)
Elephant Memories
A New Life
Sophocles: Oedipus the King: On the shore of the god of evening (The chorus prays for deliverance from the plague)
Rainer Maria Rilke: Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes -- she was already lost
Wislawa Szymborska: Hatred (It almost makes you have to look away)
Philip Larkin: The Beats: A Few Simple Words
Pablo Neruda: I want to talk with the pigs
Edward Dorn: If it should ever come
Dwindling Domain (Nazim Hikmet: from Living)
Mahmoud Darwish: Think of Others
Marguerite Yourcenar: I Scare Myself: Exploring the Dark Brain of Piranesi's Prisons
Better Together?
An End to Empire
Dennis Cowals: Before the Pipeline (Near the End of the Dreamtime)
Hazard Response: What Went Wrong in Happy Valley?
Heimat: A Tribute in Light: What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding
Borderlands: Between the Dream and the Reality
Ideology
Robinson Jeffers: Point Joe
Erasing the Forgotten: Has Gaza Eluded the Historical Memory of Poetry?
"Who you out here for?"
A Grievous Deception (Fabricating War Out of Absolutely Nothing)
Why Hillary
A very strong energy drink
Dr Mads Gilbert on the Palestinian will to resist: "I compare occupation with occupation"
Welcome home, villager: A window into the minds of the occupiers ("the most moral army in the world")
The Toll: Asmaa Al-Ghoul: Never ask me about peace
Shock (but there it is)
no one knows
Democracy DOA (working conditions)
lost souls
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood
Back into the Ruins: What is this? Just stunned
When medics cry
I am the bullets, the oranges and the memory: Mahmoud Darwish: Ahmad Al-Za'tar / Fadwa Tuqan: Hamza
Have Mercy (Mr. Obama, do you have a heart? A letter from Dr. Mads Gilbert, a physician working in Gaza)
killing us while we are sleeping
Another stunning sunset: Ilan Pappe: Israel's righteous fury and its victims in Gaza
Mahmoud Darwish: Under Siege
Mahmoud Darwish: Silence for Gaza
Emily Dickinson: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
"Hello my name is..."
Seeing Multiples: Ghosts of Jönköping ("We are somewhere else")
Fernando Pessoa: The falling of leaves that one senses without hearing them fall
Taking the El to Work
Young Man Carrying Goat: Vermont Forty Years Ago
Chidiock Tichborne: The End
Mahmoud Darwish: Identity Card
Purity
Commercial Opportunities
Product Placement
Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Ukrainian Plan (from Imperium)
Juan Gil-Albert: La Siesta ("What is the Earth?")
Thomas Hardy: Afterwards
Doom Forest
Wislawa Szymborska: Cat in an Empty Apartment
Robert Desnos: I Am a Shadow
Richard Brautigan: Lonely at the Laundromat
Curzio Malaparte: Into the Ukraine
Vladimir Mayakovsky: The Brooklyn Bridge at the End of the World
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Happy World
Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tones
Joseph Ceravolo: Falling in the hands of the moneyseekers
Amiri Baraka: Monday in B-Flat
Thomas Hardy: Snow in the Suburbs
"...seeth no man Gonzaga...": Andrea Mantegna: The Court of Gonzaga / Ezra Pound: from Canto XLV
Masaccio's Tribute Money and the Triumph of Capital
Links
Truth Game at BlazeVOX
Evening Train at BlazeVOX
Tom Clark Collection at BlazeVOX
Distance at BlazeVOX
At the Fair at BlazeVOX
Canyonesque at BlazeVOX
TC: In the Shadow of the Capitol at Pataphysics Books
Feeling for the Ground at BlazeVOX
The New World & Trans/Versions at Libellum
The New World at Evergreen Review
Something in the Air at Shearsman
Vanitas Magazine (contributions by TC)
TC at word pond
TC: Precession: A Pataphysics Post at Collected Photographs
TC at Jacket 40/TC Jacket archive
Starlight and Shadow: free TC e-book from Ahadada
TC at Issa's Untidy Hut
TC at Lally's Alley
A reading of TC's poem 'Hazard Response' on the pō’ĭ-trē audiopoetry site
Other Stuff
The Other Stuff Annexe
Problems of Thought at The Offending Adam
Harry Hoogstraten
Temporality
Black Sun
Nomadics
Poet Red Shuttleworth
Vazambam
The Little Wooden Boy
Michael Peverett
"intercapillary space"
Be the BQE
walkingintheceiling
MinXus-Lynxus2
BLCKDGRD
these temporal rooms
A Bad Guide
Jottings of an AmeriQuebeckian
East of West L.A.
wood s lot
NoraSawyer.com
Nin Andrews
Departure Delayed
Meliora Latent
Poemas del rio Wang
Robb Todd
Tom Raworth
Lucy in the Sky: In a World of Magnets and Miracles
Locos por naufragar
pantaloons
jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang
Buy books by tom clark
BlazeVOX
Shearsman
Libellum
Black Sparrow Press
amazon.com
No comments:
Post a Comment