{"product_id":"pax-atomica-campbell-mcgrath-9780060758042","title":"Pax Atomica: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"America's epic is the odyssey of appetite,\" Campbell McGrath declares, and these poems track those defining hungers across a social landscape by turns \"grave, risible, amazing, banal,\" cataloging the \"vortex of images in a ruined theater the culture comes to resemble,\" from Rocky and Bullwinkle to \"Blue Angels rampant on a field of static, \/ anthem and flag descending to darkness.\" In terza rima meditations, rock-and-roll elegies, and abecedarian lyrics, \u003cem\u003ePax Atomica\u003c\/em\u003e documents the tangled romance between self and society (\"in which \/ the melody's ampersand ensnares us\") in ways both new and familiar to readers of McGrath's five previous volumes. A continuation as well as a departure for one of America's most highly honored poets, this is poetry of formal eloquence and rhetorical power, of vision and engagement. \u003cem\u003ePax Atomica\u003c\/em\u003edescends into the maelstrom of American culture and emerges singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Campbell McGrath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 006075804X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060758042\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.08w x 0.24d","brand":"Campbell McGrath","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43912698003711,"sku":"9780060758042","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3b758f46-d90d-4a28-9324-528e5a54caf1.jpg?v=1680582201","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pax-atomica-campbell-mcgrath-9780060758042","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}