At Egypt

80 pp. A long-form poem by the poet associated with the Language School, among whose acquaintances were Ted Berrigan and Philip Whalen. 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).