{"product_id":"the-waking-glacier-a-high-artic-lyric-dianne-chisholm","title":"The Waking Glacier - A High Artic Lyric -  Dianne Chisholm","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eABOUT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA timely work of literary travel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waking Glacier \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eembarks on an Arctic sea voyage as a dawning, existential immersion in the larger-than-human world. Bringing episodic memory and ecopoetic inquiry to polar exploration, Dianne Chisholm rediscovers her queer, formative engagement with the ice. This is not a chronicle of heroic adventuring but a crystallizing sensorium, synthesizing expedition log, revisionary history, uncanny remembrance, and inventive prosody. Punctuated by her atmospheric photographs, Chisholm’s lyric offers a powerful meditation on perception, loss, and the role of art in witnessing climate change. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waking Glacier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will resonate with readers of Juliana Spahr, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Macfarlane, and Ellen Meloy, as well as scholars in environmental humanities and decolonial studies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAUTHOR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDianne Chisholm is a writer, photographer, alpinist, Arctic traveler, and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta. Her travel writing and photography appear in \u003cem\u003eGuide to Greenland, Up Here Magazine, Alberta Views, Wagadu, Rhizomes, \u003c\/em\u003eand other venues. A memoir piece, \"My Edmonton Haunts: A Hauntology of Belonging,\" features in the anthology \u003cem\u003eEdmonton on Location: River City Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e. Her research in modernist and contemporary women’s writing, queer cultural studies, and the environmental humanities has been widely published, including scholarly monographs with Cornell University Press and the University of Minnesota Press. When not at her desk in amiskwacîywâskahikan (Edmonton, Treaty 6 territory), she's at home in the Rocky Mountains or abroad in Nordic ice lands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A strikingly original and deeply immersive meditation on Arctic exploration, climate change, and the evolving meanings of place in a rapidly warming world.” Lisa E. Bloom, \u003cem\u003eClimate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With awe and reverence for the natural environments of the north, Dianne Chisholm explores concerns with land, environment, climate change, creativity, and gender through a High Arctic expedition to Svalbard, Norway.” Kit Dobson, \u003cem\u003eField Notes on Listening\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These lyrical meditations on a journey through the High Arctic are thought-provoking and timely as our Atlantean civilization sails full steam ahead towards the rocks of climate chaos.\" Thomas Wharton, \u003cem\u003eIcefields\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In rich crevasses of words, and the lush hush of photographs, Dianne Chisholm travels north, far north, to be alive and attuned to the huge presence of remote Norwegian glaciers. She queries their mysterious names and origins, and addresses them directly at times, as if recognizing, in them, their own sentience. Reading her, we awaken to a habitation with a non-human other that astounds.\" Erín Moure, \u003cem\u003ePlanetary Noise: Selected Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Waking Glacier\u003c\/em\u003e is an unusual blend of musical lyricism, a scholarly eye, a photographer's sense of presence and a story of earth unravelling. Chisholm writes a homiletic \u003cem\u003ewhite noir\u003c\/em\u003e, at once an elegy for earth and a celebration of love. This text is an urgent hagiography of naming and a beautiful confession of absence.\" Kristjana Gunnars,\u003cem\u003eThe Silence of Falling Snow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To read this is to be enriched. \u003cem\u003eThe Waking Glacier\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of 'north,' ice, artistic practice, and adventurous travel in one of the world's most remote and remarkable landscapes. Through images and words and the silences between them, Dianne Chisholm offers us a restless, playful-serious, tender lyric. Delightfully difficult to categorise, this book is written with deep knowledge, a spirit of curiosity and— most importantly—love. I've been waiting for a book as unique as this about Svalbard. Here it is!\" Helen Mort, \u003cem\u003eA Line Above the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This brilliant, genre-bending book is a welcome antidote to the usual Arctic exploration narratives: a queer journey that claims no new territory, conquers no extremes—and reveals ice as we’ve never encountered it before. Absolutely sublime.\" Kate Harris, \u003cem\u003eLands of Lost Borders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Waking Glacier\u003c\/em\u003e is, at once, an immersive and impressionistic travelogue of a tall-ship voyage to the High Arctic, a meditation on a life-long fascination with glaciers, and a personal, poetic account of internal and external landscapes. In vivid, alluring fragments, Dianne Chisholm conveys us to a realm of shale, ice, and sea, still mostly inhospitable to human habitation, and also the fastest-warming area on the planet. Her lyric takes us to the edge of language’s capability to interpret and witness our rapidly changing world.\" Jean McNeil, \u003cem\u003eIce Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A lovely and poetic memoir of a journey to Arctic shores that few of us will ever know.\" Wade Davis, \u003cem\u003eBeneath the Surface of Things\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67585182728288,"sku":"9781772128758","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0255\/2771\/3888\/files\/wakingglacier.avif?v=1790702392","url":"https:\/\/shop.thebeeskneesstore.com\/products\/the-waking-glacier-a-high-artic-lyric-dianne-chisholm","provider":"The Bee's Knees \u0026 The Travel Bug","version":"1.0","type":"link"}