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Undark: An Oratorio

Autor Sandy Pool
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2012
This is the highly anticipated second collection from Sandy Pool, whose debut book of poetry Exploding into Night (Guernica, 2009) was short-listed for the Governor General's Award for poetry in 2010. In the early 1900s, thousands of women between the ages of 11 and 45 were employed painting glow-in-the-dark watch faces in factories across North America. Several years after leaving the plant, the dial painters developed mysterious medical conditions. These included complete necrosis of the jaw, severe anaemia, intense arthritic like pains, and spontaneous bone fractures. Though clearly ailing from the use of radium based paint, the women were intentionally misdiagnosed as having syphilis. Many women died in shame before ever receiving compensation. Sandy Pool's second book, is equal parts dramatic elegy and poetic inquisition written in seven distinct voices. Drawing from the historical record of the 'radium women' and other instances of historical erasure, the work urges us to engage deeply with questions of time and women's history. The book confronts Bakhtin's notorious questions: What happens to time when history is being erased? What happens when time takes on flesh?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780889712737
ISBN-10: 0889712735
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 137 x 198 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Nightwood Editions

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What I love most about "Undark" is that the poetry doubles as a performance score. The tradition of Poets' Theatre, which began in the 1950s (in New York, San Francisco, and Cambridge), is experiencing something of a revival these days. As such, "Undark: An Oratorio" is timely and thrilling--with so much potential for adaptation to the stage. In her biographical note, Pool describes herself as a "multi-disciplinary artist." Let's hope she's true to her word, and that the book publication of "Undark" is only the beginning for these Radium Women--after all, to quote Pool, "nothing ends."--Alessandro Porco, "Open Book Toronto"