Music and Suicide: Poems - Softcover

"Rather than dramatizing a fixed relationship to the world, Clark's poems allow themselves to be pulled along by their unpredictable, discordant music: they're open to chance, private association, and "someone else's thinking." . . . Clark may be captivated by the highly charged, densely imaged realm we associate with Baudelaire and Rimbaud, but he knows when and how to subvert it . . . [He] attempts to recover and assess--rather than reject or ignore--the past and the beginnings of modernism by constructing a flaneur who is both terrified and bemused by the world he enters as "the little door slides back." --John Yau, Boston Review on The Little Door Slides Back

The author of The Little Door Slides Back departs from the black humor of his last collection of poems, embracing new themes of dissent and sexuality, but always crafting beautiful verse. Reprint.