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Oil Courses
Angličtina
45 b
Nové
Winner of the 2025 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry PrizeGrounded in deep concern about the climate crisis, CarolynWilliams-Norens Oil Courses recalls a family reliant on the oilindustryher father worked for British Petroleum in Anchorage, Alaskaand asummer spent in its service on Endicott Island. What curriculum has oiloffered each of us? To answer, Oil Courses turns to strange happenings inthe changing landscape and in our interior lives, magnifying odd scenes thatonce seemed ordinary and filing them under the names of school subjects such asphysics, economics, and history.In these poems, the absurd, the beautiful, and the alarming collide. Tiny fish begin to swim sideways,poisoned. The permafrost melts. Whales are hunted and skinned. The high schoolyearbook features students who have hit moose with their cars. The speaker ofone poem wins a trophy for an essay on the subject What Petroleum Means to Me, presentedby a group of women called the Petroleum Wives. Oil Courses speaks to our collective reliance on exploitative industries and questions ourresponsibilities and relationships to the natural world. These poems are droll,revealing, and ultimately haunting.
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