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- catalog abstract "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 school team was named the Bombers," she writes. "The school ring had a mushroom cloud on it." In Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters she uses what The Nation has characterized as her "deadpan wit, intelligence and marvelous insight" to explore the legacy of a Catholic girlhood. Spent in a landscape where "even the dust, though we didn't know it then, was radioactive."".
- catalog contributor b10268077.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "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 school team was named the Bombers," she writes. "The school ring had a mushroom cloud on it." In Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters she uses what The Nation has characterized as her "deadpan wit, intelligence and marvelous insight" to explore the legacy of a Catholic girlhood.".
- catalog description "Spent in a landscape where "even the dust, though we didn't know it then, was radioactive."".
- catalog description "The Landscape of Memory -- Adam's Daughter -- The Desert Fathers: The Flagpole-Sitter -- The Age of Reason -- Andante pastorale -- The Blessing of the Throats -- Memories of the Atomic Age -- Ship Burial -- Lives of the North American Martyrs -- Northwest Passage -- A Brief History of Blasphemy for the Feast of the Assumption -- The Cloud of Unknowing -- Psyche and Eros in Florida -- Nights of 1995 -- Ovid at Land's End -- Bureau de change -- Sunday at the Ruins -- In the Eternal City -- The Love of Ruins -- Keats in Ohio -- The Flea Market at the End of History -- Much Too Late -- The Patron Saint of Venice -- I Dinosauri di Venezia -- The Body Translated into Heaven -- The Further Travels of Marco Polo -- In the Museum of the Eighteenth Century -- Il Diluvio universale (particolare) -- A Return to Earth -- The Desert Father -- Mass in B Minor.".
- catalog extent "x, 82 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Desert fathers, uranium daughters.".
- catalog identifier "0140587748 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Desert fathers, uranium daughters.".
- catalog isPartOf "Penguin poets".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books,".
- catalog relation "Desert fathers, uranium daughters.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 20".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century.".
- catalog subject "American poetry Women authors.".
- catalog subject "PS3557.R42 D47 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Landscape of Memory -- Adam's Daughter -- The Desert Fathers: The Flagpole-Sitter -- The Age of Reason -- Andante pastorale -- The Blessing of the Throats -- Memories of the Atomic Age -- Ship Burial -- Lives of the North American Martyrs -- Northwest Passage -- A Brief History of Blasphemy for the Feast of the Assumption -- The Cloud of Unknowing -- Psyche and Eros in Florida -- Nights of 1995 -- Ovid at Land's End -- Bureau de change -- Sunday at the Ruins -- In the Eternal City -- The Love of Ruins -- Keats in Ohio -- The Flea Market at the End of History -- Much Too Late -- The Patron Saint of Venice -- I Dinosauri di Venezia -- The Body Translated into Heaven -- The Further Travels of Marco Polo -- In the Museum of the Eighteenth Century -- Il Diluvio universale (particolare) -- A Return to Earth -- The Desert Father -- Mass in B Minor.".
- catalog title "Desert fathers, uranium daughters / Debora Greger.".
- catalog type "text".