{"product_id":"curve-away-from-stillness-john-allman-9780811210812","title":"Curve Away from Stillness","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCurve Away from Stillness\u003c\/em\u003e, John Allman affirms the connections between poetry and science. They are, he says, as \"old as the ones between poetry and cosmology, beauty and knowledge, pleasure and speculation.\" In reading this collection of \"Science Poems,\" we are reminded of a philosophical tradition in literature that, with Lucretius, sees in the power of love the binding force of the universe. Allman's poems, however--meditations on \"Physics,\" \"Chemistry,\" \"Biology,\" essential \"Principles,\" the \"Planets\"--are grounded in the science of our time, in all its elegance and awesomeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eCurve Away from Stillness\u003c\/em\u003e is Allman's fourth book of poetry, his third with New Directions. His previous publications include \u003cem\u003eScenarios for a Mixed Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e (1986), speculative reflections on art and nature; the \"historical epiphanies\" of \u003cem\u003eClio's Children\u003c\/em\u003e (1985); and \u003cem\u003eWalking Four Ways in the Wind\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton University Press, 1979).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Allman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811210812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811210812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.93h x 5.36w x 0.28d","brand":"John Allman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149199274239,"sku":"9780811210812","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5047a1b2-a5f6-4ccd-8134-8aa70f10d127.jpg?v=1688455373","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/curve-away-from-stillness-john-allman-9780811210812","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}