{"product_id":"the-improbable-swervings-of-atoms-christopher-bursk-9780822958895","title":"The Improbable Swervings of Atoms","description":"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 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Bursk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822958899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822958895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.08w x 0.32d","brand":"Christopher Bursk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990406594815,"sku":"9780822958895","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_47aae49f-12b9-45ca-ad9c-feb0624d81a7.jpg?v=1683304493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-improbable-swervings-of-atoms-christopher-bursk-9780822958895","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}