{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“We began to dig ourselves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e deeper than we dreamed\u003cbr\u003e when we began to see\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e metal as other than medicine,\u003cbr\u003e our bodies, more than mineral.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elise Marcella Godfrey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274227003643,"sku":"9780889778405","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_df225f5e-bfd4-405a-9d6c-eaa875e511ad.jpg?v=1771256795","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/pitchblende-9780889778405","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}