The Improbable Swervings of Atoms.

Intro -- Contents -- 1 -- Carnage. Cataclysm. Catastrophe. -- Freedom Train -- Army Hearings -- One More Victory for the Children of Light -- Dr. Livingstone, I Presume -- My Brother and I Drop the Bomb on Hiroshima -- Nothing More Dangerous than Boredom -- Woodcraft Manual for Boys -- Coffee -- Fourteen and Under Singles Championship -- Sex Education -- The Barbarians -- De Rerum Natura, Book Five -- Irreconcilable Differences -- One Nation, Indivisible, Under God -- E Pluribus Unum -- You Only Get a Few Chances to Be of Interest to the Gods -- What Do You Hate about Yourself? -- 2 -- That'll Be the Day -- Mutually Assured Destruction -- Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School -- Das Kapital -- November 29, 1963, Life Magazine -- The Atomic Energy Act of 1962 -- New Year's Resolution -- Plymouth Rock -- Totaled -- Soo-ling -- The World of Business -- The Great Society -- 1964 -- 3 -- January 19, 1972 -- Singing Yourself Down the Stairs -- Why I Hate Math -- August 6 -- Politics Ends When You Unwrap a Sandwich -- No Verifiable Proof -- College Professor Suspended -- The Congressman from Bucks County Answers a Question -- Utopia -- Thanksgiving Will Never Be the Same -- The Soul Wants the Last Word -- Farewell Ceremony -- 42 Linden -- De Rerum Natura -- Acknowledgments.

This collection follows the physical and emotional struggles of a young boy growing up in 1950s America as he attempts to understand himself and the world around him. Winner of 2004 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, and the 2006 Milton Kessler Poetry Book Award.

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