Odes of Roba

by Clark Coolidge

Poetry. "Poems Written in Rome, October 1984 - February 1985" is the note below the manuscript title of ODES OF ROBA ("Roba" means "stuff" in Italian slang), a period which marked Clark Coolidge's first experience of Italy, particularly Rome, an immersion of five months in an architectural complex and cultural dilation long imagined, often heard extolled by Philip Guston, Alvin Curran, and others, and now finally present in the dailiness of the poet's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093572446X
• ISBN13: 9780935724462
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Figures
• Length: 158 Pages