The cloud that contained the lightning
By: Cynthia Lowen
Series: The National poetry series; National poetry series
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9780820345642
Copyright date: 2013
Work titles: Poems
Description: Using the Character of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," as a jumping-off point, The Cloud That Contained the lightning explores the kinds of ethical choices we face as individuals and as a society with respect to the innovations and inventions we pursue. How are our fears, obsessions, prejudices, and cultures manifested in the ways we apply new technologies? In exploring our tendency for selective amnesia, this collection asks a critical question: How quickly will the forgotten lessons of the past allow us to repent the tragic chapters of our history?
Notes: Poems.

Includes bibliographical references (page 65).