Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats

Tom Clark

Black Sparrow Press, 1994 - Literary Criticism - 188 pages

Poems that are beautifully understated impressions/reflections on episodes in the sudden mortal splendor that was Keats' brief life. An extended reflection on the fable of the modern poet's life as Keats lived it.
Written in a series of blank-verse poems interspersed with fictional letters by Keats and by members of his circle, the book will be stunning to anyone who loves the art of writing.

About the author

Tom Clark was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 1, 1941. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1963 where he received a Hopwood Award for poetry. He was a poet, biographer, novelist, dramatist, reviewer, and sportswriter. He contributed to Poetry magazine and was a former poetry editor of the Paris Review. His books included Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats; Jack Kerouac: A Biography; Sleepwalkers Fate: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1991; Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life; Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems; and Champagne and Baloney: The Rise and Fall of Finley's A's. He was fatally struck by motorist and died on August 18, 2018 at the age of 77.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats; Literature Online - Twentieth-Century American Poetry
• Author: Tom Clark
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, 1994
• ISBN: 087685918X, 9780876859186
• Length: 188 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh