Critical Assembly
Poems of the Manhattan Project
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-8263-5883-7 (ISBN)
Description
With technical mastery and remarkable empathy, Canaday introduces readers to the people involved in the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb, from initial theoretical conversations to the secretive work at Los Alamos. Critical Assembly also includes brief biographies, notes, and a bibliography for further exploration about this critical event in world history.
Reviews / Votes
John Canaday has given us a unified series of poems that may well stand among the greatest works of poetry in this twenty-first century."" - X. J. Kennedy, author of Nude Descending a Staircase""Human frailty and genius, human work of horror and salvation, human foibles and superhuman forces: in Critical Assembly John Canaday deploys lyric poetry, with terrific formal intelligence, to tell anew the enduring, fate-ridden story of the Manhattan Project."" - Robert Pinsky, former US Poet Laureate
""The Manhattan Project now has its Poet Laureate-Historian. Canaday's Critical Assembly is a tour de force of poetry and penetrating history that bores brilliantly into the Los Alamos experience to reveal the inner thoughts and lives of the Promethean community that altered humanity's fate during World War II."" - Martin J. Sherwin, coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-5883-7 (9780826358837)
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09/2017
Simon + Schuster LLC
€9.88
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Person
John Canaday is the author of The Invisible World: Poems and The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs. His poetry has been widely published.