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Nuclear family / Jean Van Loon.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.V3647 N83 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Loon, Jean, author.
- Series:
- Hugh MacLennan poetry series
- The Hugh MacLennan poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian fiction--21st century.
- Canadian fiction.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 92 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Jean Van Loon's father was a metallurgist in an Ottawa lab that contributed to the Manhattan Project. The Geiger counter he brought home exposed her mother's dinner plate as radioactive. Her childhood friend's father sold cobalt bombs to the Soviet Union. Unbeknownst even to the family, her mother worked for Canada's Cold War intelligence service. Rooted in memory and history, Nuclear Family carries the reader into the sense of impending nuclear doom and the explosions of material wealth that shaped Van Loon's childhood. Poems come alive with image, sound, and texture, portraying the innocence of childhood games, the worldwide effects of prolonged nuclear testing, and the long-lasting legacy of her father's suicide - a fallout of radioactive silences. In Nuclear Family violent events, both global and familial, permeate a girl's coming of age in a story of cataclysm and, ultimately, recovery."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Hiroshima, After
- A Man of Few Words
- They Came
- Fusion
- Jane's Birthday, July 16, 1945
- Sun Valley Snow Boots
- Sahtu Lake
- A rock is a rock is a rock
- New Brother
- Ipana
- Jane Helps Check the Lab
- Suppertime
- Big Pile
- Knucklebones
- Fission
- Drill
- Cipher Clerk
- Crowned
- Plunder
- Fallout (f)
- Move into New
- Fallout (if)
- Father Lore
- Carnauba, Queen of Waxes
- Testing, Testing
- Titles
- Australian Tails
- God Will Not Be Mocked
- Fallout (Hi)
- Verge
- Son and Father
- Cold Comfort
- Aftershocks
- What the New Widow Tells Her Nine-Year-Old Son
- What the New Widow Tells Her Eleven-Year-Old Son
- Death Talk
- The Perfumed House
- Last Wrongs
- Chinese Food
- A Kindness
- Dear Sir
- Dark Corners
- Widow's Midnight
- Morality Play
- Alchemy
- Eden
- Gotta Get Out of This Place / Can't Get No
- Phoenix
- Learning You, Dad, from the Wrong End of Time
- Remembering with Dick
- Turning Leaves
- Good Job
- Peopling the Night
- Remembering with Teddy
- Airwaves
- From Port Radium.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Van Loon, Jean. Nuclear family.
- ISBN:
- 9780228011156
- 0228011159
- OCLC:
- 1280599358
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