Quantum Lyrics
Poems
6 March 2009
Territory Rights — Worldwide.
Description
"Fearless hybridization.... Jordan creates spaces where physics and poetry, comic books and jazz, memory and loss, come together."—American Prospect
This ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of physics with the perplexities of the human condition. Employing both narrative and cinematic structure, Jordan re-creates the lives of Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and comic book superheroes—the Green Lantern, the Atom—and also reveals himself in poems of recollection and loss.
Also By: A. Van Jordan 
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“Finds evocative new ways to connect us to a shared storytelling heritage.”—Entertainment Weekly
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A remarkable montage of poems that explore film, poetry, and the elusiveness of reverie.
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“Finds evocative new ways to connect us to a shared storytelling heritage.”—Entertainment Weekly
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"Jordan is a wizard at capturing vernacular in both conventional forms and his own invention." --Black Issues Book Review