Nuclear Family
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Nuclear Family

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Nuclear Family

About this book

In the night her whitened toes / cold sole on his calf / between his palms he warms / a slender foot – / twig bones, taut skin.

Jean Van Loon's father was a metallurgist in an Ottawa lab that contributed to the Manhattan Project. The Geiger counter he brought home exposed her mother's dinner plate as radioactive. Her childhood friend's father sold cobalt bombs to the Soviet Union. Unbeknownst even to the family, her mother worked for Canada's Cold War intelligence service.

Rooted in memory and history, Nuclear Family carries the reader into the sense of impending nuclear doom and the explosions of material wealth that shaped Van Loon's childhood. Poems come alive with image, sound, and texture, portraying the innocence of childhood games, the worldwide effects of prolonged nuclear testing, and the long-lasting legacy of her father's suicide – a fallout of radioactive silences.

In Nuclear Family violent events, both global and familial, permeate a girl's coming of age in a story of cataclysm and, ultimately, recovery.

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Information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780228011156
eBook ISBN
9780228013563
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. HIROSHIMA, AFTER
  5. A MAN OF FEW WORDS
  6. THEY CAME
  7. FUSION
  8. JANE’S BIRTHDAY, JULY 16, 1945
  9. SUN VALLEY SNOW BOOTS
  10. SAHTU LAKE
  11. A ROCK IS A ROCK IS A ROCK
  12. NEW BROTHER
  13. IPANA
  14. JANE HELPS CHECK THE LAB
  15. SUPPERTIME
  16. BIG PILE
  17. KNUCKLEBONES
  18. FISSION
  19. DRILL
  20. CIPHER CLERK
  21. CROWNED
  22. PLUNDER
  23. FALLOUT (I)
  24. MOVE INTO NEW
  25. FALLOUT (II)
  26. FATHER LORE
  27. CARNAUBA, QUEEN OF WAXES
  28. TESTING, TESTING …
  29. TITLES
  30. AUSTRALIAN TAILS
  31. GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED
  32. FALLOUT (III)
  33. VERGE
  34. SON AND FATHER
  35. COLD COMFORT
  36. aftershocks
  37. WHAT THE NEW WIDOW TELLS HER NINE-YEAR-OLD SON
  38. WHAT THE NEW WIDOW TELLS HER ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON
  39. DEATH TALK
  40. THE PERFUMED HOUSE
  41. LAST WRONGS
  42. CHINESE FOOD
  43. A KINDNESS
  44. DEAR SIR:
  45. DARK CORNERS
  46. WIDOW’S MIDNIGHT
  47. MORALITY PLAY
  48. ALCHEMY
  49. EDEN
  50. GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE /CAN’T GET NO …
  51. PHOENIX
  52. LEARNING YOU, DAD, FROM THE WRONG END OF TIME
  53. REMEMBERING WITH DICK
  54. TURNING LEAVES
  55. GOOD JOB
  56. PEOPLING THE NIGHT
  57. REMEMBERING WITH TEDDY
  58. AIRWAVES
  59. FROM PORT RADIUM
  60. NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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