The Horse's Name Was Physics [Paperback]

George Drew (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: WordTech Communications (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933456205
• ISBN-13: 978-1933456201
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,628,231 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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George Drew was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. Toads in a Poisoned Tank, his first book, was published in 1986, and a chapbook, So Many Bones (Poems of Russia), in 1997 by a Russian press, in a bilingual edition. A second collection, The Horse's Name Was Physics, appeared in 2006 from Word Tech Communications, under their Turning Point imprint, and another collection, The Hand that Rounded Peter's Dome, appeared under the same imprint in October, 2010. In 2009 a third collection, American Cool, appeared from Tamarack Editions. Drew has published widely, with poems appearing recently or upcoming in journals around the country. His work also has been anthologized, most recently in The Southern Poetry Anthology, II: Mississippi (Texas Review Press, 2010). Drew has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, most recently in 2010, and is the winner of several awards, such as the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Baltimore Review Poetry Prize, and the South Carolina Review Poetry Prize, and he was runner-up for the Chautauqua Literary Journal Poetry Contest. American Cool won the 2010 Adirondack Literary Award for best poetry book of 2009. The View from Jackass Hill, Drew's fifth collection, won the 2010 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press, and will appear in 2011.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This Horse by a Long Stretch, April 10, 2006

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Allen Hoey (New Hope, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Horse's Name Was Physics (Paperback)

George Drew's The Horse's Name Was Physics humanizes the birth of the atomic age as witnessed by those who were the prime movers of the movement that led to the building of the atomic bomb. In letters and monologues written in verse that is either metered or tightly controlled, Drew gives such historic figures as Ernest Rutherford, Werner Heisenberg, Albert Einstein, and Robert Oppenheimer, among others, a more human face. We read of their struggles with themselves as well as with the science, all presented clearly and cogently though without dumbing-down any of the thought. This book represents the best of what the best poetry can do: give us a glimpse into the world that goes beyond the strictly personal while retaining the strength and compression that vivid imagery and crafted language alone can render. This book is a must read for lovers of physics and poetry alike.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ride the Quantum Horse, April 15, 2006

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Kevin Gavitt - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Horse's Name Was Physics (Paperback)

I cannot improve on the first review by Mr. Hoey, so let me just say this; it is unlikely that when you think of the invention of the atomic bomb that the first thing that pops into your mind is - poetry.

After reading this book, that will change; forever.