Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir
環境汚染と身体の記憶をたどるメモワール。個人の体験を手がかりに、場所と健康のつながりを掘り下げる。
作品情報
身体に残る環境の傷を、個人史と社会史の両方から見つめ直す。
汚染、記憶、土地への愛着が交差し、身体が環境の変化をどう引き受けるかを描く。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Counterpoint
- 発売日
- 2001-05-22
- ページ数
- 256ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 2.54 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781582431161
- ISBN-10
- 1582431167
- 価格
- 13801 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Professional & Technical/Engineering/Civil
A thought-provoking and dramatic account details the author's family who immigrated from Italy and Barbadoes to start a new life in the boglands of New Jersey only to discover, much too late, that their new living environment was riddled with radiation and toxic waste, which led to infertility and the destruction of their dream. 25,000 first printing.
Susanne Antonetta is the author of three collections of poems, including Bardo, a Brittingham Prize winner and Library Booklist Notable Book. She lives near Seattle with her husband, a poet, and her young son.
レビュー
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A masterful Must Read for anyone concerned about our environmental pollution
A scathing indictment of industry having no concern for their toxic runoff and the havoc it causes to the people affected . Written beautifully by a poet.
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