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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 128
Utgivningsdatum: 2015-04-01
Förlag: Book*hug
Dimensioner: 201 x 150 x 13 mm
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ISBN: 9781771660938

Endangered Hydrocarbons

Name: Endangered Hydrocarbons
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Author: Lesley Battler
ISBN: 9781771660938

av Lesley Battler

Häftad, Engelska, 2015-04-01

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Fracking - tar-sand runoff - dirty oil extraction. This is the language of our oil-addicted 21st century society: incredibly invasive, blatant in its purpose, and richly embedded in mythological and archetypal symbolism. The ultimate goal of the industry: To core the underworld. Endangered Hydrocarbons, Lesley Battler's first full-length collection of poetry, shows that the language of hydrocarbon extraction, with its blend of sexual imagery, archetype, science, pseudoscience and the purely speculative, can be as addictive as the resource it pursues. Using pastiche and wordplay, Battler shines a floodlight on the absurdity and pervasiveness of production language in all areas of human life in the oil fields, including art, culture and politics. Incorporating texts generated by a multinational oil company, and spliced with a variety of found material (video games, home decor magazines, works by Henry James and Carl Jung), Battler deliberately tampers with her found material, treating it as crude oil--excavating, mixing, and drilling these texts to emulate extraction processes used by the industry.With traces of Dennis Lee's Testament, Larissa Lai's Automaton Biographies, and Adam Dickinson's The Polymers, this lively and refreshing take on a polarizing topic will resonate with readers of contemporary poetry who connect with environmental issues and capitalist critique.

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Lesley Battlers fabulous Endangered Hydrocarbons is a high-octane romp through Albertas oil patch a tour from office tower cubicles to bitumen sands extraction sites. But its as though the excursion is conducted jointly by the spirits of Edward Snowden, Groucho Marx, and Lewis Carroll Battler distills, blends, and blurs the jargons of geology, chemistry, oil exploration, drilling technologies, and corporate spin. Tom Wayman

LESLEY BATTLER's work has been published in Alberta Views, Arc, Arc (Quarc issue), Contemporary Verse 2, dandelion, filling Station, Matrix, Other Voices, PRISM international, and west coast line. She won the PRISM international Earle Birney award (2012), and the University of Calgary Poem of the Season award (2009) for a poem that became part of Endangered Hydrocarbons. Born in Barrie, Ontario, Battler received an MA in English from Concordia University in Montreal and currently lives in Calgary, where she works in the petrochemical industry.