A Curriculum of the Soul, Volume I (edited by John Clarke & Albert Glover). Courtesy Spuyten Devil Press.
John "Jack" Clarke (1933-1992) was an American poet and academic.
Life[]
A noted poet, jazz musician and scholar of William Blake and Charles Olson, John "Jack" Clarke was the author of several books of poetry, essays and lectures, among them From Feathers To Iron (1987) and In The Analogy, published posthumously in 1997. The latter title, a collection of more than 200 sonnets, stands as the culmination of Clarke's lifework in poetry.
He taught for 29 years at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He was a director of the Institute of Further Studies (founded in 1965 with George F. Butterick, Fred Wah, and Albert Glover), which published 6 issues of the Magazine of Further Studies through 1968.
In the late 1960's, Clarke and Glover started work on the collaborative epic poem A Curriculum of the Soul, based on a sketch by Olson called "A Plan for the Cuirriculum of the Soul." Clarke assigned 28 parts of the plan to different poets living around the United States at the time. Nearly 50 years later, the poem was completed, edited by Glover, and published by the Institute of Futher Studies.[1]
From 1989 to 1991 Clarke edited intent: letter of talk, thinking, and document.
Recognition[]
In 1989 Clarke was awarded the Ohioanna Poetry Award from the Ohio Library Association (he was a native of Ohio) and in 1991, the prestigious Artists Fellowship for Poetry presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Publications[]
- Green Field: For Albert Glover. Canton, NY: Institute for Further Studies, 1976.
- From Feathers to Iron: A concourse of world poetics. Bolinas, CA : Tombouctou/Convivio, 1987.
- In the Analogy. Buffalo, NY: Shuffaloff Books, 1990.
Edited[]
- A Curriculum of the Soul (edited with Albert Glover). (2 volumes), New York: Spuyten Devil, 2016.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Timothy James Cook, "CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S 'PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL' (master's thesis), Title Page and abstract, Maureen & Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana, Lib.UMt.edu, Web, Feb. 25, 2012.
External links[]
- About
- "A Note on Jack Clarke"
- Steve Ellis makes valuable comments on Clarke and his work in Jack Magazine Vol, 2 No. 1.
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