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"Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wide russet bowl of hips splaying open. From these sere flanks, her desiccating body, what a sea change is born."
From the endangered Canadian boreal forest to the environmentally threatened Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, Jenna Butler takes us on a sea voyage that connects continents and traces the impacts of climate change on northern lands. With a conservationist, female gaze, she questions explorer narratives and the mythic draw of the polar North. As a woman who cannot have children, she writes out the internal friction of travelling in Svalbard during the fertile height of the Arctic summer. Blending travelogue and poetic meditation on place, Jenna Butler draws readers to the beauty and power of threatened landscapes, asking why some stories in recorded history are privileged while others speak only from beneath the surface.
Contents
xi The Journey
1 Lines Toward Ice
7 Pyramiden
13 Ornithomancy
19 Night
23 Bone
29 The Men at the Edge of the World
35 She Becomes the Ocean
41 Arctic by Air
47 Afloat
53 Barentsburg
59 Cusp
65 Postcard from Svalbard
71 At the Face
77 Threads
83 Leaving Days
89 Song to the Boreal
