Vantage /
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| Author / Creator: | Bambrick, Taneum, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : The American Poetry Review, [2019] [Port Townsend, Washington] : Distribution by Copper Canyon Press ©2019 |
| Description: | viii, 55 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11933510 |
| Summary: | Vantage is a fictionalized account of the poet's real experiences working as the only woman on a six-person garbage crew around the reservoirs of two massive dams. Bambrick began writing poems in order to document the forms of violence she witnessed towards the people and the environment of the Columbia River. While working there she found that reservoirs foster a uniquely complex community--from fish biologists to the owners of luxury summer homes--and became interested in the issues and tensions between the people of that place. The idea of power, literal and metaphorical, was present in every action and encounter with bosses and the people using the river. The presence of a young woman on the crew irritated her older, male co-workers who'd logged, built houses, and had to suffer various forms of class discrimination their entire lives. She found throughout this experience that their issues, while not the same, were inherently connected to the suffering of the lands they worked. Introduction by Sharon Olds. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 55 pages ; 23 cm |
| Awards: | American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, 2019 |
| ISBN: | 9780983300885 0983300887 9780986093807 0986093807 |
