OLYMPIA STREET
by Michael Ford
$10.00 | 86 pages | 2008
one scientific method of divination is a song whistling between the ears along a footpath, an ancient mixture of aperture and sound, the seeing ear the hearing eye, taking its walkabout here comes cornetist Buddy Bolden & radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden the trumpet and its antenna of leaves beginning at the end as all things do IN NEW ORLEANS a sonorous wave of busted hourglass one cut nightmare one cut dreamcast these violets found on Olympia Street
—Dave Brinks, Publisher
Michael Ford
Michael Ford, a long time resident of New Orleans, is currently pursuing a doctorate in U.S. literature at the University of Georgia in Athens. In addition to Olympia Street, he is the author of Carbon (Ugly Duckling 2006) and a chapbook, Where We Expect to See You Soon, which is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.
Other books by Michael Ford
Swing One Hand, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003
Carbon, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006