Fractured Karma

By Tom Clark

Book Overview

Here are light-hearted nature poems chronicling a Pacific Coast cold snap, affectionate satires of the California brand of Zen Buddhism, and, in a pronounced shift of tone, a series of moving elegies for Robert Duncan, Delmore Schwartz, Hart Crane, and Jean Genet. Best of all, here is one of Clark's matchless biographies in verse: a short double life of English music-hall great George Formby (1904-1961), master of the ukulele and the double-entendre, and the onetime professional clog-dancer Beryl Ingham, Formby's wife, agent, manager, muse, and tight-fisted Colonel Parker.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876857918
• ISBN13: 9780876857915
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Stuff overall

Tom Clark once again gives us some good poems. He starts off the book with basic poetry and ends with a thirty page or so story consisiting of one characters life. Overall this book is good but not recommended for a beginner of Tom Clark's work