Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems - Paperback

by Tom Clark (Author), Amy Gerstler (Introduction by)

Tom Clark's poetic testament is essential for all readers of progressive American poetry.

Author Biography

Tom Clark has served as poetry editor of The Paris Review and as a poetry critic for the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. He has published numerous poetry collections and a number of critical biographies, including lives of baseball great Mark Fidrych and writers Jack Kerouac and Charles Olson. He lives in Berkeley and teaches at New College of California. Amy Gerstler is a literary critic whose own poetry has received a National Book Critics Circle Award.