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Kathryn Savage combines mourning poem and manifesto for environmental justice in this lyrical essay on the violence pollution and contamination inflict on the geology of our bodies and our communities.
Groundglass takes shape atop the most polluted aquifer in the state of Minnesota, beside trains that haul petroleum fracked from the Bakken Shale Formation, as Kathryn Savage contemplates the transgressions of four US Superfund sites against our precarious planet: land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences of growing up in low-income housing next to one such Superfund, and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying of cancer, Savage traces concentric rings of connection--between our bodies, one another, our communities, our ecosystem--to reveal the porous boundary between self and environment and remind us that no living thing exists on its own.