{"product_id":"9780060758042","title":"Pax Atomica","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of eloquent,\u003cbr\u003e culturally engaged poems that amount to Campbell\u003cbr\u003eMcGrath's best book yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"America's epic is the odyssey of appetite,\" Campbell McGrath declares, and these poems track those defining hungers across a social landscape by turns \"grave, risible, amazing, banal,\" cataloging the \"vortex of images in a ruined theater the culture comes to resemble,\" from Rocky and Bullwinkle to \"Blue Angels rampant on a field of static, \/ anthem and flag descending to darkness.\" In terza rima meditations, rock-and-roll elegies, and abecedarian lyrics, \u003ci\u003ePax Atomica\u003c\/i\u003e documents the tangled romance between self and society (\"in which \/ the melody's ampersand ensnares us\") in ways both new and familiar to readers of McGrath's five previous volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA continuation as well as a departure for one of America's most highly honored poets, this is poetry of formal eloquence and rhetorical power, of vision and engagement. \u003ci\u003ePax Atomica\u003c\/i\u003e descends into the maelstrom of American culture and emerges singing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021578944752,"sku":"9780060758042","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060758042_p0.jpg?v=1763620274","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060758042","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}