Pitchblende

Delivers an urgent poetics of resistance and appeal for environmental justice for a Saskatchewan community "We began...
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Author: Elise Marcella Godfrey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Pitchblende by Godfrey, Elise Marcella

Pitchblende

Dhs. 97.27

Pitchblende

Dhs. 97.27
Author: Elise Marcella Godfrey
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Delivers an urgent poetics of resistance and appeal for environmental justice for a Saskatchewan community

"We began to dig ourselves

deeper than we dreamed
when we began to see

metal as other than medicine,
our bodies, more than mineral."

At Rabbit Lake in northern Saskatchewan lies the second largest uranium mine in the western world. For decades, uranium ore and its poisonous by-products--pitchblende, a highly radioactive rock--were removed, transported and scattered across the land, forever altering the lives of plants, animals, and peoples who live there.

Elise Marcella Godfrey's Pitchblende is a timely, polyvocal, exquisitely crafted poetic intervention into environmental ethics and extractive industries. Inspired by and adapted from testimonies given at the public hearings about the Rabbit Lake mine, Godfrey creates a parallel structure for the found text--and the voices--to colonize. Interconnected, Godfrey's poems are a chorus of Indigenous Elders and women protesting a destructive, unwanted mine in their community and a visual, literal representation of how industry, capitalism, and colonialism seek to erase these same people and their voices.

Pitchblende is a powerful, political collection that challenges us to urgently rethink our responsibilities to the land, water, and air that sustains all species, and our responsibilities to one another.

Author: Elise Marcella Godfrey
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: 09/25/2021
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780889778405

About the Author
Elise Marcella Godfrey's poetry has appeared in literary journals such as subTerrain, Room, Prism, and Grain. She now lives with her family on the traditional and unceded land of the QayQayt First Nation.

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