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100 1 $aBursk, Christopher.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83190129
245 14 $aThe improbable swervings of atoms /$cChristopher Bursk.
260 $aPittsburgh :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a93 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aPitt poetry series
500 $a"Winner of the 2004 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry"--Cover.
505 00 $tCarnage : cataclysm : catastrophe -- $tFreedom train -- $tArmy hearings -- $tOne more victory for the children of light -- $tDr. Livingstone, I presume -- $tMy brother and I drop the bomb on Hiroshima -- $tNothing more dangerous than boredom -- $tWoodcraft manual for boys -- $tCoffee -- $tFourteen and under singles championship -- $tSex education -- $tThe barbarians -- $tDe rerum natura, book five -- $tIrreconcilable differences -- $tOne nation, indivisible, under God -- $tE pluribus unum -- $tYou only get a few chances to be of interest to the gods -- $tWhat do you hate about yourself? -- $tThat'll be the day -- $tMutually assured destruction -- $tWhy Latin should still be taught in high school -- $tDas Kapital -- $tNovember 29, 1963, Life magazine -- $tThe Atomic Energy Act of 1962 -- $tNew Year's resolution -- $tPlymouth Rock -- $tTotaled -- $tSoo-ling -- $tThe world of business -- $tThe great society -- $t1964 -- $tJanuary 19, 1972 -- $tSinging yourself down the stairs -- $tWhy I hate math -- $tAugust 6 -- $tPolitics ends when you unwrap a sandwich -- $tNo verifiable proof -- $tCollege professor suspended -- $tThe congressman from Bucks County answers a question -- $tUtopia -- $tThanksgiving will never be the same -- $tThe soul wants the last word -- $tFarewell ceremony -- $t42 Linden -- $tDe Rerum Natura.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
830 0 $aPitt poetry series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42019089
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3552.U765$iI67 2005g