"One of the great original voices of our times--a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence."--Jack Kerouac"Robert Lax's poems [prove] yet again that the gift to be simple is the gift to be free, that less is more, and that least may sometimes be most."--John Ashbery"Poems (1962-1997)" gathers thirty[...]

A clarifying, fascinating, urgently needed book on radiation-what it is, what should and shouldn't concern us about it, and what place radiation and radiation-related technologies have in our world. The universe and our galaxy and planet Earth were born in a nuclear explosion. We live on a radioacti[...]