{"product_id":"pitchblende-9780889778405","title":"Pitchblende","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elise Marcella Godfrey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Regina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Oskana Poetry \u0026amp; Poetics #8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889778405","brand":"University of Regina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46428617605257,"sku":"9780889778405","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b4cf7dee-5012-4c74-b5b7-b590397cbfa5.jpg?v=1778014462","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/pitchblende-9780889778405","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}