{"product_id":"improbable-swervings-of-atoms","title":"Improbable Swervings of Atoms","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eImprobable Swervings of Atoms\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eChristopher Bursk\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780822958895\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Pittsburgh Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003e Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWinner 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Improbable Swervings of Atoms | Christopher Bursk | Paperback | 9780822958895 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1547745","offer_id":48711593656472,"sku":"1547745","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71y9-UNpGpL.jpg?v=1773785622","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/improbable-swervings-of-atoms","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}