After several years of wandering in the not unpleasant wilderness of music, bands, and folk and rock CD releases, Jim Clark returns to the printed page with this kaleidoscopic Rube Goldberg contraption of a book. Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany, providentially published by Rank Stranger Press, is chock full of dispatches from Clark's own visionary south rendered in genres ranging from the short story sequence, to personal essay and fond memoir, to scholarly analysis, to a full-length stage play, to a handful of occasional poems. There is even a new song, "One Night Late," included on a CD single.
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"There is no one else in the region with such a wide range of artistic talent." --Ron Rash
"Jim Clark knows the taste of good moonshine and the sound of a well-tuned pentameter line. He knows his way along a footpath and a footnote. As this rich and varied collection shows, Jim is a writer of such varied and prolific output that the miscellany may be the only sort of volume that can give accurate measure of his achievement. This will join those rare books I return to, always finding some new pleasure." --Al Maginnes
"Jim Clark s Notions is not just a book, but a whole environment stocked with the flora and fauna of a life led in words. The many genres represented remind me of separate clans of locusts raising their songs until they blend and harmonize, resulting in a call-and-response pulse bringing crucial news across the dark. Whether he's reminding us of Fred Chappell's lightly-held rendition or measuring the currents of Southern poetry, Clark is a sure hand and eye, and his gallimaufry is various, plenteous and robust. Stories, occasional poems, personal essays, a stage play, full-dress scholarship and revealing celebrations and cerebrations - all serve, in Byron Herbert Reece's words, 'To brighten the dim // Coin of a kingdom . . . .'" --R.T. Smith
"Jim Clark knows the taste of good moonshine and the sound of a well-tuned pentameter line. He knows his way along a footpath and a footnote. As this rich and varied collection shows, Jim is a writer of such varied and prolific output that the miscellany may be the only sort of volume that can give accurate measure of his achievement. This will join those rare books I return to, always finding some new pleasure." --Al Maginnes
"Jim Clark s Notions is not just a book, but a whole environment stocked with the flora and fauna of a life led in words. The many genres represented remind me of separate clans of locusts raising their songs until they blend and harmonize, resulting in a call-and-response pulse bringing crucial news across the dark. Whether he's reminding us of Fred Chappell's lightly-held rendition or measuring the currents of Southern poetry, Clark is a sure hand and eye, and his gallimaufry is various, plenteous and robust. Stories, occasional poems, personal essays, a stage play, full-dress scholarship and revealing celebrations and cerebrations - all serve, in Byron Herbert Reece's words, 'To brighten the dim // Coin of a kingdom . . . .'" --R.T. Smith
About the Author
Jim Clark is the Elizabeth H. Jordan Professor of Southern Literature at Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. His books include Dancing on Canaan's Ruins, Handiwork, and Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece. He has also released a CD of original poems and Appalachian folk music, Buried Land, and two CDs, Wilson and Words to Burn, with his band The Near Myths.
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