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This is the winner of the 2013 Washington State Book Award and finalist for the 2013 William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America. The poems in Plume are nuclear-age songs of innocence and experience set in the "empty" desert West. Award-winning poet Kathleen Flenniken grew up in Richland, Washington, at the height of the Cold War, next door to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, where "every father I knew disappeared to fuel the bomb," and worked at Hanford herself as a civil engineer and hydrologist. By the late 1980s, declassified documents revealed decades of environmental contamination and deception at the plutonium production facility, contradicting a lifetime of official assurances to workers and their families that their community was and always had been safe. Plume, written twenty years later, traces this American betrayal and explores the human capacity to hold truth at bay when it threatens one's fundamental identity.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Plume
• Author: Kathleen Flenniken
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780295993904
• ID: 04875127
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Weight: 159 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. October 2013

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