Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters

by Debora Greger and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Award-winning poet Debora Greger grew up in Washington near the site of the Hanford atomic plant, which, unbeknownst to its workers, manufactured plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. "The high... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140587748
• ISBN13: 9780140587746
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Outstanding.

We have long come to expect polish from Debora Greger, but we find much more than that with this collection. Here we not only have the wit and intelligence we expect from Ms. Greger, but a sense of urgency, the personal. These poems deal with the testing of the materials used to make the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, foreign travel which becomes a self-exile, and the need to reconcile the disparities found at every turn throughout the book. A masterful collection that gives us the poet at her best. A stunning book.// C. Dale Young, Associate Editor of NEW ENGLAND REVIEW