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The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world.
Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with
spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the
omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces the
military, cultural, and scientific history of the development of
nuclear weapons and nuclear power through searing lyric,
procedural, and visual poetry. Ken Hunt's poetry considers
contemporary life-life in the nuclear age-broadly and deeply. It
dances through the liminal zones between routine and disaster,
between life and death, between creation and destruction. From the
mundane to the extraordinary, Hunt's poems expose the depth to
which the nuclear has impacted every aspect of the everyday, and
question humanity's ability to avoid our destruction. Challenging
the complicity of the scientists who created devastating weapons,
exploring the espionage of the nuclear arms race, and exposing the
role of human error in nuclear disaster, The Manhattan Project is a
necropastoral exploration of the literal and figurative fallout of
the nuclear age. These poems wail like a meltdown siren, condemning
anthropocentric thinking for its self-destructive arrogance.
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