| Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems
Reviews
Billy Collins:
"Tom Clark, the lyric imp of American poetry, has delivered many decades' worth of goofy, melancholic, cosmic, playful, and wiggy poems. I can never get enough of this wise guy leaning on the literary jukebox, this charmer who refuses to part with his love-sick teenage heart. And here are hundreds of Clarks in one volume—who can resist?"
Jo Ann Wasserman:
"Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems is an intelligently chosen—and overdue—section of Tom Clark's remarkable verse-harvest. Clark's subtle poetry tests containment while miraculously forming a solid container around purposeful thought. Charged with both vulnerability and swagger—that essential ‘Negative Capability'— Light and Shade bravely asks: Can poetry ‘Hazard [a] Response'? This brilliant selection bears unfailing devotion to Keats's great imperative ‘. . . let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thought.'"
Joanne Kyger:
"Tom Clark, the finest writer of lyric poetry in America today, brings an effortless grace to this incisive, sorrowful and sublime volume. Here, over forty years of moments recorded in a poetry lit by transcendental landscapes and maritime reveries, ‘The calm that nature breathes grows large,' and a brilliant, tough serenity evolves. A book to be treasured for its skill, insight and often savage humor."
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