Love songs of carbon / Philip Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Philip, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry.

Human body--Poetry.

Human body.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

79 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Hexham, Northumberland : Bloodaxe Books, 2015.

Summary:

Love Songs of Carbon is Philip Gross's 18th book of poetry, and is a coming of age - inhabiting the ageing body with a confident, inventive curiosity. At the same time searching, tender, intellectually agile, unexpected and erotic, this is poetry at home with great shifts of perspective, from the outer edge of science to the sensations at our fingertips. These are love poems, both to the person and to the body itself, even as - especially as - it faces entropy and decay. Book jacket.

Contents:

Paul Klee: the late style 9

This body, 11

Thirty Feet Under 12

Mould Music 13

A Love Song of Carbon 17

I Remember I Remember 18

Heartland 20

Storm Surge 22

Coming of Age 24

A Briefer History of Time 25

Limited Edition 27

Mattins 28

Fission 30

I Am Those Clothes 32

Pinches 33

Theses Written on Mud 35

Epstein's Adam 38

In the Small Town 39

The Rag Well, Madron 40

The Players 42

Ways to Play 44

Hordes 45

Coprolite 46

Waits 47

A Pump in Africa 48

Towards a General Theory of String 49

Senex 51

Fire Balloon Heart 52

The Shapes They Make 53

Love in the Scanner 55

Epithalamium, with Squirrels 56

The Way It Arrives 58

Watermark 59

Small Songs of Carbon 61

Coming to Slow 63

A Walk Across a Field 65

Several Shades of Ellipsis 67

Blue Dot 71

Brownian Motion 72

Whereas 73

Translucence 74

Thirteen Ways to Fold the Darkness 75.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781780372587

1780372582

OCLC:

920376864

Publisher Number:

99967988109