tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1188616141861159485..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: the dance of conquest is going to have to wait | museum of memory Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13754897736420517642019-11-04T06:15:21.796-08:002019-11-04T06:15:21.796-08:00Actually, Pariah, we aren't. Not at all. Not a...Actually, Pariah, we aren't. Not at all. Not all him. He was unique, as you are. I know he liked the idea of One Mind and all. Is this what you mean? Probably! We are wannabes at best. I speak for myself.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36707467532121771172019-11-04T05:21:08.529-08:002019-11-04T05:21:08.529-08:00Tom,
I am being called into a disciplinary meeting...Tom,<br />I am being called into a disciplinary meeting for using Brawny cloths to clean the chalkboards at work. I wish you were here to have a laugh at my expense.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20764016331825520222019-08-17T21:55:32.944-07:002019-08-17T21:55:32.944-07:00One year ago today Mr. Clark made his last post he...One year ago today Mr. Clark made his last post here. Being a creature of habit I still pop in on occasion to check for new posts, even though I know there won't be. I miss you, Mr. Clark, and hope that wherever you are you found peace. Much metta to all who followed Tom, knew him personally, and his family. Especially to his family. <br /><br />We are all Tom Clark.Pariah Sojournerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00731561526759517134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5084508262048263792019-07-03T02:31:36.629-07:002019-07-03T02:31:36.629-07:00Beautiful memorial reading for TC last Sunday. I w...Beautiful memorial reading for TC last Sunday. I was glad to be there and the sun was out afterwards, in the street; an endless, golden California light. Too good to be true but it was.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33112509979995173262019-07-01T23:15:19.957-07:002019-07-01T23:15:19.957-07:00
death
is the unheard
voice of life
when our eye...<br />death <br />is the unheard <br />voice of life<br />when our eyes are washed<br />open into a new understanding <br />and our steps are dragged<br />astray into a new path<br />simorgh of truth dwells<br />on top of the ghaaf of our hardships<br /><br />© nooshin Azadi<br />(feburary 17, 2017)<br /><br /><br />tom, you will live forever... with and without us... always in the consciousness of our cosmos... creating, guiding, building new moments which will expand into new levels of awareness... <br />nooshin azadihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03602072178920920319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45751544980902110372019-03-01T14:11:09.101-08:002019-03-01T14:11:09.101-08:00Thinking of everything today. Missing.Thinking of everything today. Missing.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54511881288336260652018-10-03T09:24:53.055-07:002018-10-03T09:24:53.055-07:00Pariah,
There is nothing like this blog and nobody...Pariah,<br />There is nothing like this blog and nobody out there even remotely resembling Tom Clark. You could look at a stone or a feather or the sky and get some sort of feeling from these of the magnitude of what Tom and Angelica have accomplished. You could buy his books and encourage others to do so, give them as gifts and such and study them. This blog could be seen as a companion to his books. You could search and search the comments left and the posts (as I do) and listen to clips and music to get a feel for what happened because this is an archive, an encyclopedia of what is possible in poetry and in art and writing. Still, this blog was and is a process and generously vulnerable to a great extent in that it shows Heart and Mind working on Poetry and poetry on a daily basis with much humor and anger. Also with many expressions of humility, futility, and love. You need a lot of water to swallow this bitter Tom Clark pill. The water joins the river inside your body and takes you to regions known and unknown.<br /><br />Where else can this be found? Traces, tracks, and trails are in the writers, artists, and musicians found here. Paths and inroads are seen in the current events, and documentation of war, devastation, and also images of beauty and hope. You can find something like this blog by experiencing our world and life, but it takes a great artist to wrestle with the vast and show us the slice.<br /><br />I have lived my life alongside this blog and it has been a lot less lonely because of the work here. This is a unique artwork as a whole and each post unlike anything else existing.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83192451410219419312018-09-30T07:33:20.907-07:002018-09-30T07:33:20.907-07:00So sorry to find out you're gone Tom, your blo...So sorry to find out you're gone Tom, your blog was a huge centring for me...Michael Peveretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17090710369630916194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17813386710430695572018-09-29T16:06:41.946-07:002018-09-29T16:06:41.946-07:00I'm really missing Tom's content, being ab...I'm really missing Tom's content, being able to pop in to see what he's written and reported, the photography from around the world and through time. So, I'm wondering if it is at all possible that some of his friends and followers here might have some suggestions for other blogs that follow in the style of Mr. Clark? I know those are big shoes to fill. Thanks. Pariah Sojournerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00731561526759517134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89688775432018644872018-09-25T12:15:31.510-07:002018-09-25T12:15:31.510-07:00I will miss Tom and his blog. Tom was a light in t...I will miss Tom and his blog. Tom was a light in this world.Jonnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09220817083192697735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59139508371694765042018-09-16T12:14:57.449-07:002018-09-16T12:14:57.449-07:00So sorry to hear he's gone. Really loved this ...So sorry to hear he's gone. Really loved this blog and his work. He will be missed. My condolences.<br /> Bob Gaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196480144643512960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21800249993071356832018-09-14T04:44:06.500-07:002018-09-14T04:44:06.500-07:00Thank you for this blog, Tom Clark and Angelica Cl...Thank you for this blog, Tom Clark and Angelica Clark. It's the most beautifully assembled and presented piece of internet work I've ever seen. There are people all over the world who are thinking of you, your lives in Berkeley and your work. We love you both. x<br /><br />- Jeremy Hawker aka Artur CrownAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757380568063322240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44672353090405020162018-09-07T05:36:20.602-07:002018-09-07T05:36:20.602-07:00"Witnesses are: the Thursdays,
The shoulder b..."Witnesses are: the Thursdays,<br />The shoulder bones, the loneliness, the rain, and the roads..."Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00800789115163749092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54083592190768449252018-09-02T11:38:27.846-07:002018-09-02T11:38:27.846-07:00Farewell Tom Clark, thank you for the many years y...Farewell Tom Clark, thank you for the many years your blog has been a vital and portentous force for creativity and sagacity in my life.<br /><br />“Upon a high star our course is set, our end is life, put out to sea.”Gerryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09860063939963605830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-7828586552693040722018-09-01T23:12:26.364-07:002018-09-01T23:12:26.364-07:00This last chapter of "Beyond the Pale" i...This last chapter of "Beyond the Pale" is resonant, prophetic, and still. The way it lays down visual planks of suffering face to face with the reader, taking us there, with long unbroken stretches of no commentary at all... <br /> A silence broken in this last foray just a few times: the longish monologue evoking all of South America; the terrific small satire of a Twitter "machine" in the small fat fingers of Guess Who; the sudden shift from South America to Mecca and the Muslim pilgrimage, with its powerful image of life as a Journey; and finally the inclusion of Cesar Vallejo's haunting elegy for himself-- of all the poems to select from, it's uncanny that it should be this one, on 8/17/18, in light of Tom's passing and the closing of the Blog on 8/18/18. The link made between the poem "Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca" and the images of the Kabah is striking and Otherworldly.<br /> The Clark blog is, to me, what someone once said of prayer: that it's a stream running by your house into which you may take a cleansing dip when you want.<br /> These years of blog pieces feel like a joint project between Tom and Angelica. I hope it's never taken down. Requiescat in Pacem, Michael Wolfe<br />MWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06064208531766134720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91326753328996199002018-08-27T15:23:33.312-07:002018-08-27T15:23:33.312-07:00I can't believe that I just found Tom Clark - ...I can't believe that I just found Tom Clark - returned to him today and found him gone. I give thanks that so much of him is still here. And I envy all those who knew him longer.liz readhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14068601596463760559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76472993781362607152018-08-27T05:54:41.984-07:002018-08-27T05:54:41.984-07:00I started everyday looking at Doonesbury and Tom&#...I started everyday looking at Doonesbury and Tom's blog. Tom's was the harder work but I can't think of anybody who has made poetry and art that look so straight into the evil and beauty of our time. Be the BQEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11621320435990191224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45339253001373923882018-08-27T00:47:26.915-07:002018-08-27T00:47:26.915-07:00The NYT obit made me smile. TC with the really goo...The NYT obit made me smile. TC with the really good hair. kkenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47657470717805824402018-08-26T22:59:55.973-07:002018-08-26T22:59:55.973-07:00Met Tom recently just as a neighbor. I really look...Met Tom recently just as a neighbor. I really looked forward to talking more with him. Two weeks before he was killed he warned me about the dangers of walking near Marin Avenue in Berkeley. I met him while he was crossing Marin and I noticed he was very careful. He told me he had been hit before by a car on Marin and that there had been seven fatalities on this street since the 1980's. Marin Avenue in Berkeley is a wide dark street with round street corners that allow drivers to take right turns without slowing down. Unfortunately this street is a very unsafe for pedestrians and more people will be killed crossing Marin Avenue in the future.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09175193817548881968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33551867548502327272018-08-26T13:14:28.096-07:002018-08-26T13:14:28.096-07:00The price of admission was putting up with his dif...The price of admission was putting up with his difficult moods....but it was well worth it. In the early 90s, I studied Wyatt, Herrick, Marvell, Keats Pound and Berrigan at his feet. (I missed Olson.) <br /><br />Tom Clark was a great and loving mentor who combined scholarship and artistic creation and Keats and Kerouac in one one radiant package. I feel very fortunate to have spent time in his dining room with his riffs and rambles. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16960998239610347634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43726307218037336472018-08-26T05:13:42.142-07:002018-08-26T05:13:42.142-07:00Emptiness Is Our Lot In Life
Rest in peace, frien...Emptiness Is Our Lot In Life<br /><br />Rest in peace, friend--<br /><br />For where you were only <br />A minute ago, the vacant <br /><br />Space is now full <br />Of longing.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56084870928184512442018-08-25T21:33:51.303-07:002018-08-25T21:33:51.303-07:00Oh, this sudden grief.
Thank you Tom & Angel...Oh, this sudden grief. <br /><br />Thank you Tom & Angelica for the blog & the works . . .adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-7138418772549571042018-08-25T14:16:00.711-07:002018-08-25T14:16:00.711-07:00Stones (1969) was the first single individual'...Stones (1969) was the first single individual's collection of poems I think I ever owned; I would have been 17 at the time. Be at peace, Tom Clark, and thank you for your torrent of words across our shared lifetime.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16006806750272885169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47892461925796717342018-08-25T01:52:47.520-07:002018-08-25T01:52:47.520-07:00That title is supposed to be Eff as in Fucking (ef...That title is supposed to be Eff as in Fucking (effing auto correct), but without editor TC I can't get out of my own effing way. Guess we'll all have to find our own way. Thank you, Angelica, for being his and our shining light. kkenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78791772181631176002018-08-24T18:16:57.292-07:002018-08-24T18:16:57.292-07:00Everything is upside down.Everything is upside down.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.com