{"product_id":"pitchblende-paperback","title":"Pitchblende - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElise Marcella Godfrey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDelivers an urgent poetics of resistance and appeal for environmental justice for a Saskatchewan community\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"We began to dig ourselves \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e deeper than we dreamed\u003cbr\u003e when we began to see \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e metal as other than medicine, \u003cbr\u003e our bodies, more than mineral.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elise Marcella Godfrey's \u003ci\u003ePitchblende\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePitchblende\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElise Marcella Godfrey\u003c\/b\u003e's poetry has appeared in literary journals such as \u003ci\u003esubTerrain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRoom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePrism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e. She now lives with her family on the traditional and unceded land of the QayQayt First Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698940776511,"sku":"9780889778405","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/10b28306c639f6249ea6dac37e393d67.webp?v=1765011872","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/pitchblende-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}