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The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

By Christopher Bursk

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780822990741, 9780822958895
LCC
PS3552
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
262 kB (268347 bytes)
Series
Pitt Poetry Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
104\104
Time added
2023-08-08 06:32:26
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Description

Winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry The Improbable Swervings of Atoms follows the comedic, often painful, physical and emotional travails of a young boy growing up in 1950s America. He watches the McCarthy hearings, conquers the Congo, assassinates the president, has his head stuffed into a toilet, drops his uniform on the fifty-yard line, and tries to make sense of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. The poems engage history in a very intimate way, revealing how a boy, as he matures, attempts to understand the world around him, his own physical development, the people in his life, and what it means to live in a country and time where it is impossible to disengage oneself from world events--where, in fact, the quest for identity is an act that requires one to rewrite history in personal terms.

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