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Quantum Lyrics

Poems

By A. Van Jordan

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| Hardcover | 9780393064995

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This provocative, ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the human condition.

Employing both narrative and cinematic structure, A. Van Jordan re-creates the lives of his subjects: Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, comic-Continue

This provocative, ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the human condition.

Employing both narrative and cinematic structure, A. Van Jordan re-creates the lives of his subjects: Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, comic-book superheroes (The Green Lantern, The Atom), along with aspects of himself revealed in poems of recollection and loss. With lyric intensity he suggests that contemporary physicists are also metaphysical poets.

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  • Quantum Lyrics

    Art or quantum physics: which is better suited to aid our understanding of the universe and of our place in it? To point out, as A. Van Jordan often does in Quantum Lyrics, that neither will suffice without the other is not to suggest that these syst ... (read full critics)

    believermag published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 72 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0393064999
  • ISBN-13: 9780393064995
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton
  • Pub date: Jul 30, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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