Fast Commute
Marilyn Stanley
, Jude Castillo
, Melissa Kohlman
, Eli Cherney
, Linda Leitch
, Karen Nordrum
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Natasa Ilic
, Barry Kazimer
, Deb Philippon
, Cassandra Schiemann
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Noelle Walsh
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Phreia Von Woolfgard
, Andrea Pole
, Dawn Macdonald
, Sarah Schwartz
, LJ Law
, Tanya Korigan
, Lisa Mallia
, P. Thompson
, Katie Olivier
, Aneesah Jaffer
, Megan Brodie
, Deanna Radford
, Robert Hykawy
, Lise Gaston
, Amanda Earl
, Kim Cappellina
, Joann Horgan
, Melanie Solar
, Kim Wiggins
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Beth Follett
, Bob Paterson-watt
, Maria Mclean
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Christopher Evans
, Sara Conway
, Janet Meisner
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Chris Lantz
, Janice Cournoyer
, Lauren Seal
, Debra Chandler
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Randi Ann Doll
, Andrea Gillespie
, Anndee Newson
, Nadia Cescato
editor@49thShelf.com
A powerful book-length poem on environmental destruction and the violences of colonial nation-states from the acclaimed author of Settler Education.
Here is a lament for places in flux, where industrial, commercial, or suburban development encroaches or invades. From Highway 401 to Refinery Row east of Edmonton, from Lake Ontario to the Fraser River, this long poem takes aim at the structures that support ecological injustice and attempts new forms of expression grounded in respect for flora, fauna, water, land, and air. It also wrestles with the impossibility of speaking ethically about “the environment” as a settler living within and benefiting from the will to destroy that so often doubles as nationalism.
Following physical routes and terrains, Fast Commute exists both within and outside the dissociative registers of colonialism and capitalism. This deeply engaging book offers a way to see, learn about, and live in relationship with other-than-human life, and to begin dealing with loss on a grand scale.
