Research Catalog

Title

Carbon : poems / by Michael Ford.

Author

Ford, Michael, 1973-

Publication

[Brooklyn N.Y.] : Ugly Duckling Presse ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed by SPD/Small Press Distribution, [2006], ©2006.

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Description

76 pages; 19 cm

Contents

Independence day -- An imaginary Egypt -- Funerary -- At 3 AM, chasing furniture -- For the stray cats on Plum Street -- The ghost of Ida Warren -- The boat -- The letter 'M' -- Silver oxide -- Colossus in Chicago -- Nights are ships -- The gods of chemistry -- John Henry -- Before the man -- Waiting for salt, waiting for the railroad -- London -- Bonaparte's retreat -- To a mockingbird -- And come away -- Pallbearer's union -- Variations on the habits of wading birds -- Infrastructure -- A comic strip panel -- The death of a violin maker -- Contract for the draining of Lake Michigan -- A motion picture -- A superhero's convalescence -- Detail from Edward Hopper's 'Table for ladies' -- The desk clerk -- Portrait -- Portrait -- Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco -- Rust belt nocture -- For a man reading Mr. Fantastic comic books in a waiting room at Charity Hospital, New Orleans -- The case against economics, pt. 1 -- Giantkiller -- Notes for fantastic architecture -- Arguments with clocks and calendars -- Topiary -- The smell of leaves -- Life in the floodplain -- A slight ode to Bonnie Parker -- Poem to be painted on walls -- 61 North -- Carbon dioxide -- Ash Wednesday -- We are the dead letter office -- Still life with Iowa and road construction -- The poetry of hardship.

ISBN

1933254211 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006020036
• 9781933254210

OCLC

• ocm70131183
• SCSB-5288110

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries