The Improbable Swervings of Atoms - 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 Lucretiuss 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 eventswhere, in fact, the quest for identity is an act that requires one to rewrite history in personal terms.


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 ⚡️Book Title : The Improbable Swervings of Atoms
⚡Book Author : Christopher Bursk
⚡Page : 104 pages
⚡Published August 20th 2005 by University of Pittsburgh Press (first published January 1st 2005)

The Improbable Swervings of Atoms

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 Lucretiuss 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 eventswhere, in fact, the quest for identity is an act that requires one to rewrite history in personal terms.