Bomb is a meditation on a book of photographs that document the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos. The thirty-page poem begins with epigraphs by Democritus, Gregory Corso and Andre Breton/Paul Eluard before embarking upon its own project of lucid investigation via an elliptical glancing narration: "Put the bomb in a glass vase/add dust and forget." Bomb is sharp, stark, rhythmic; Mr. Coolidge tangles with the dreamlike oddness of the photographs in fits and starts of language with an explosive beauty. Waldrop's series of collages are literal reworkings of the original pictures: deep blacks and bright whites excavated from the book, remade here in the image of the poem.

Printed offset with two-color cover. Designed by Emily Y. Ho. Printed offset. 26 copies are lettered and signed by Coolidge and Waldrop.