2004, ISBN: 9780822958895

Winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryThe Improbable Swervings of Atoms follows the comedic, often painful, physical and emotional travails of a young boy growing up in 1950s Amer… More...

Winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryThe 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. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Poetry>Poetry>Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press Core >1 >T<

2005, ISBN: 9780822958895

Trade paperback, New., Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 104 p. Pitt Poetry., [PU: University of Pittsburgh Press]

2005, ISBN: 9780822958895

Buch, Softcover, [PU: University of Pittsburgh Press], University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005

2005, ISBN: 9780822958895

Paperback, Neubuch, [PU: University of Pittsburgh Press]