Tom Clark Fractured Karma Signed Black Sparrow 1990

Description

Tom Clark occupies a distinct place in postwar American poetry, moving fluidly between biography, criticism, and verse while maintaining a clear, conversational style. Fractured Karma reflects that sensibility—poems that feel grounded yet slightly off-center, attentive to everyday detail while pushing toward something more elusive and philosophical beneath the surface.

Published by Black Sparrow Press at the height of its influence, this edition carries the press’s unmistakable design language—bold color fields, textured boards, and a deliberate, modernist aesthetic. As one of only 150 signed hardcover copies, this is a collectible example from a press that defined the look and feel of late 20th-century American small press publishing.

Signed Black Sparrow Clark in this condition is getting harder to find.