new from above/ground press: Images from Declassified Nuclear Test Films, by Stephen Brockwell

Images from Declassified Nuclear Test Films

Stephen Brockwell

$4

0800055,

No Date,

“Let’s Face It”,

9:35-10:04

Her hair.

Say that—all the voices

murmur.

What skin tone

adjustments, I can’t

imagine—who could?

No categories for that

declassification, too much

gamma

to see it.

And of the trees,

what survival?

Match stick does not

survival make

as beautiful as sunsets.

There are no creams

for alpha particles.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

October 2014

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Stephen Brockwell is an Ottawa poet who runs a small IT company from a tiny office in the Chateau Laurier. His collection Fruitfly Geographic won the Archibald Lampman Award in 2004. His most recent collection is Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books.

This is Stephen Brockwell’s fourth above/ground press chapbook, after Excerpts from Impossible Books: The Crawdad Cantos (2012), Impossible Books (the Carleton Installment) (2010) and Marin County Poems (2001).

[produced for a reading at Brickbat Books, Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, October 4, 2014 with rob mclennan and Pattie McCarthy, hosted by Jack Krick]

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com