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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Wesleyan Univ Pr
Publication date
September 1, 1988
Pages
72
Binding
Paperback
Edition
1
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780819511515
ISBN-10
081951151X
Original list price
$15.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Mark Irwinâs boyhood near the nuclear laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, haunts his poetry. This book of three elegies explores the nature of remembered time and spaceâpersonal, historical, geologicalâagainst the progression of timeâevolution, germination, cell division, nuclear fission, the decay of memory and feeling. This, the poet says, is a kind of âfossil recordâ of scienceâs impact on the modern world. Entropy (the tendency of atoms towards disorder) becomes a god, a blueprint for possibility. Disorderâfrenzy, darkness, chaosâleads to evolution and evolution to order, harmony, and beauty. A star burns and sunlight falls on the world.
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1 edition from Wesleyan Univ Pr (September 1, 1988)
9780819511515 | details & prices | 72 pages | List price $15.95
About: Mark Irwinâs boyhood near the nuclear laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, haunts his poetry.
About: Mark Irwinâs boyhood near the nuclear laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, haunts his poetry.
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