Cement Guitar

by Michael Carlson

In this striking debut collection, Michael Carlson offers poems that combine the concrete and the musical, while embodying a tendency toward contradiction. He writes by working with rhythms, structures, images, associational leaps, and an obsession with the sound of words, as opposed to narrative. The book begins, "A thing wants to pounce but can't," and this spirit of hesitation continues throughout the volume.

The first section of the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558494014
• ISBN13: 9781558494015
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 8.9"