Poetry. Clark Coolidge's 1988 book AT EGYPT is a single poem in eleven sections that treats travel as a source for the generative self. Coolidge gestures at his dissolubility as a traveler and, as such, a productive ability for complete re-generation of self "from inside the factory that changes it forever...into a recognizable but totally different shape"--Phillip Whalen. Coolidge marks "a monument and an alphabet" with AT EGYPT within "complexion, light diffused and reflected on sand"--Paul Hoover.
At Egypt
