Pitchblende / Elise Marcella Godfrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godfrey, Elise Marcella, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Oskana poetry & poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Poetry.

Indigenous peoples.

Mineral industries--Corrupt practices--Poetry.

Mineral industries.

Protest movements--Poetry.

Protest movements.

Environmental responsibility--Poetry.

Environmental responsibility.

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Mineral industries--Corrupt practices.

Genre:

Ecopoetry.

Poetry.

Political poetry.

Physical Description:

82 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"From an emerging environmental voice comes an evocative multilayered collection of poems about extraction, destruction, and the erasure of Indigenous people. 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, which prioritized the voices of industrial interests, 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Follow the Water

Deline, Northwest Territories

The Rock Reveals Itself

LaBine

Echo Bay, Great Bear Lake

Pitchblende

Enter the Transcripts

Elder's Testimony

Stony Rapids

Inuit Tapirisat of Canada's Testimony (Erasure)

Lichenology

Caribou Conservation Board's Testimony (Erasure)

The North Is Not a Barren Land

Rabbit Lake Uranium Mine

When Women Speak

Hidden Bay

Ore Body

Black Lake

Uraneco's Response

Dust or Pollen

Fond du Lac

Fond du Lac

Parse the Numbers

Hatchet Lake Band's Testimony (Erasure, Part One)

Hatchet Lake

How to Precipitate Yellowcake

Hatchet Lake Band's Testimony (Erasure, Part Two)

Cosmochemistry (Part One)

Clearwater River

Water

Women's Testimony

La Ronge

Trapper's Testimony

La Ronge (Part One)

Biologist's Response

La Ronge (Part Two)

La Ronge (Part Three)

Always Establish a Baseline

No Return

Metis Local 126's Testimony

Saskatoon (Erasure)

How to Sift the Many Metals?

Our Anger Is Radiant

Saskatoon (Part One)

Saskatoon

Descent

Limnology

Collapse

Geophysicist's Testimony

Rabbit Lake Fault

Call In the Dowsers, Now

Anthropocene

Cosmochemistry (Part Two)

Pyrocene

Biologist's Testimony re: White Oak Lake

Tennessee

Regina (Erasure) We Dream Our Hands

Saskatoon Indigenous Coalitions Testimony

Fallout

Will We Apologize?

Take It to the Light

Ethicist's Testimony

Now, One Generation Later

Saskatoon (Part Two)

To Survive

Saskatoon (Part Three)

Our Fatigue Is the Future.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Godfrey, Elise Marcella. Pitchblende.

ISBN:

9780889778405

088977840X

OCLC:

1241732539

Publisher Number:

99989364977