IV. I. Amor(ph)ous Carbon -- Graphene, PhD. Three Notes of a Birthday Fragrance -- The Cosmonaut of Negative Space -- DMP, Aphrodite Mama -- The Judgment of Alex -- Three Notes of a Freedom Fragrance -- II. SLUG: Aquarelles of Innocence -- Wet On Dry -- Mother's White Coat -- The Temple of Feces -- Disinherited Princess -- Newborn Baritones -- Pig Leather Bag -- Seam Side of Gold -- White Cornflower -- Mind Snapshot 200 -- White Centaur -- Wet-On-Wet -- Slug Tongue -- Useful Untouchable -- Two Tongues -- Five Tongues -- Seven Tongues -- A Negligible Poultice -- Cloud Pate into Hotdogs -- Flat Wash -- The Fizz of Syllable Lust -- The Battle of Phonemes -- Gradated Wash -- Roes of Yes -- American Ts -- Preliminary Rappelling Session -- Bona Fide -- Variegated Wash -- 100 Conversion Points -- Pale Peach -- III. SNUG: Die Gross and the Unseen -- Lisawasser -- Alex Yangin -- A Star in the Michelin Guide -- Rank Four in the World Blacksmith Contest -- Sixfold Love -- Amsterdam Lines -- Alarum -- Wide Bevels of the Donbas Gem -- No Arabesques -- IV. GUNS: Beasts in My Wind Rose -- Four Yes-Lines -- A Stillborn Flamingo -- Pike Dive -- Bass Soup -- Cantankerous Hen -- Tigers' Day -- A Fuzzy Black-and-White Monkey -- Swallowtail -- Four Allotropes Of Carbon -- Alex Yangin -- Terr(agony) -- Left Panel -- Central Panel -- Right Panel -- Lisa Wasser -- Cosmogony -- Carboniferous -- Hypophysis -- See Hear Touch -- Smell Taste Breed -- He She -- Heft -- Primitive Gods -- Aurora Char -- Cloud University, Carbon Department -- Graphite, B. Sc. -- Diamond, MA. -- Amor(ph)ous Carbon -- Graphene, PhD.
Summary:
"Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine-Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe's east: the reader is sent onto a double Odyssey of two adventurers, the fiery blacksmith Alexander and the elusive linguist Lisa, whose paths are destined to cross on the cusp of the war in the Donbas. Only one of them fathoms that their encounter goes far beyond its face-value purpose. A thriller, a romance, a CV, a rose of historical winds, a song of crafts, an ontology of Eastern-Ukrainian mind in one, Carbon: Song of Crafts is told in polyphonic verse-a prayer for the beloved, anguished city"-- Provided by publisher
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