Residing in California for the remainder of his life, Clark was an active writer, producing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. In 1991, he published a biography of Charles Olson, one of his poetic mentors, titled Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life (Norton: 1991).
Deathedit
On the evening of Friday, August 17, 2018, Clark was walking across a street in Berkeley, California, and was hit by a car at about 8:40 p.m. He died on the following day.[6]
Bibliographyedit
Poetry collectionsedit
Stones. Harper & Row. 1969.
Air. Harper & Row. 1970.
Green. Black Sparrow Press. March 26, 1971. ISBN 978-0876850817.
Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography. New Directions. November 1, 1993. ISBN 978-0811212502.
In the Shadow of the Capitol: Photographs by Carl Mydans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration, September 1935. Pataphysics Books, 2012. 2002. ISBN 978-0987338709.
Referencesedit
^Sandomir, Richard (August 24, 2018). "Tom Clark, 77, Is Dead; Poet, Biographer, Baseball Bard". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
^'Tom Clark', poets.org [1]. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^ abTom Clark, 'Letters Home from Cambridge (1963-5)', Jacket Magazine, issue 20, December 2002. [2] Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^Biographical data on Clark taken from contributor's notes section at The Holiday Album: Greeting Card Poems For All Occasions feature at Jacket magazine, edited by Elaine Equi, with a poem by Clark
^Tom Clark Author Page at the Jacket Magazine website
^"Pedestrian, 77, dies after driver struck him south of The Alameda crosswalk". Berkeleyside. 2018-08-18. Retrieved 2018-08-18.
External linksedit
Finding aid to the Tom Clark papers at Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The World Begins: A visit with Tom Clark
Tom Clark Author Page at Jacket Magazine
Tom Clark page at the Poetry Foundation
Tom Clark's Blog
Tom Clark page and poem at the Academy of American Poets
Tom Clark, 1941-. American author Washington University Libraries bio
"Knights of the Road" - Tom Clark reviews "This is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris" by James Campbell in the London Review of Books (Vol. 22 No. 13 · 6 Jul 2000)