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- Author: Christopher Bursk
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN-10: 0822958899
- ISBN-13: 9780822958895
- Format: 15.4 x 23.1 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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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- Author: Christopher Bursk
- Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- ISBN-10: 0822958899
- ISBN-13: 9780822958895
- Format: 15.4 x 23.1 x 0.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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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