Description: "'Blair offers us penetrating meditation on the Manhattan Project and its consequences, in terms both historically recuperative and, mindful of a cautionary anxiety, deeply psychological. Here the author borrows from a communal legacy of ancient story to situate the bomb, in spite and in light of its break with the past, as both an illumination of human nature and a shift of mythical scope and weight. In light of the new Zeitgeist and a threat as extreme as ever and yet faded from conversation, this book breathes new life into a much-needed public understanding'"--Bruce Bond (provided by publisher).
Brief description: John Blair has published six books, most recently Playful Song Called Beautiful (University of Iowa Press, 2016) as well as poems and stories in The Colorado Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Antioch Review, New Letters, and elsewhere.
Review Quotes:
"Ultimately, the work is exemplary in every way, peeling back a time of world history that many still deem highly controversial and imbuing it with vibrant imagery, creating a tapestry that highlights the interwoven nature of ambition and calamity."
-RECOMMENDED by the US Review of Books, Mihir Shah