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Whiteout

By Jessica Goodfellow

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Whiteout

By Jessica Goodfellow

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When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow's twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other climbers from the 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali, was lost in an unprecedented ten-day storm blasting winds of up to three-hundred miles per hour. Just as North America's highest peak is so massive that it has its own distinct weather system--changeable and perilous, subject to sudden whiteout conditions--a family whose loved one is irretrievably lost has a grief so blinding and vast that it also creates its own capricious internal weather, one that lasts for generations. Whiteout is Goodfellow's account of growing up in this unnavigable and often unspoken-of climate of bereavement.

Although her poems begin with a missing body, they are not an elegy. Instead, Goodfellow struggles with the absence of cultural ritual for the uncontainable loss of a beloved one whose body is never recovered and whose final story is unknowable. There is no solace here, no possible reconciliation. Instead, Whiteout is a defiant gaze into a storm that engulfs both the wildness of Alaska and of familial mourning.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
64
Release Date:
2017-08-15
Publication Date:
2017-08-15
Publisher:
Univ of Chicago Behalf of U of Alaska Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1602233276
ISBN13:
9781602233270
Weight:
143 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
232 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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