{"product_id":"goose-melanie-dennis-unrau-9781998336210","title":"Goose","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems that retrace unconscious lines of thought and flight to write a new history of the tar sands\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoose\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of hand-traced visual poems made using found text and images from the 1938 and 1956 editions of \u003ci\u003eNorthland Trails\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of self-illustrated short stories, poems, and essays about the Athabasca region authored by \"father of the tar sands\" S. C. Ells (1878-1971). \u003ci\u003eGoose\u003c\/i\u003e takes Ells's early work surveying, mining, and separating bituminous sand, along with his colonial, racist, and sexist attitudes and aesthetics, as the starting point for an inventive and biting critique of the oil-sands industry and our petromodern energy system.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt turns cheeky, sharp-witted, and grave, \u003ci\u003eGoose\u003c\/i\u003e inverts found-poetry erasure and procedural techniques to explore themes of extraction and the relationship between humans, nonhumans, and the land to enact irreverent, deconstructive literary criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie Dennis Unrau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1998336212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781998336210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Assembly Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Melanie Dennis Unrau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46881171833087,"sku":"9781998336210","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd110f3f-7fed-43b5-9593-dbb39ad87f56.jpg?v=1747970892","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/goose-melanie-dennis-unrau-9781998336210","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}