{"product_id":"tsunami-vs-the-fukushima-50-poems-1","title":"Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50: Poems","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTsunami vs. the Fukushima 50: Poems\u003c\/h1\u003eLee Ann Roripaugh,Lee Ann Roripaugh\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003eMarch 12 2019\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781571314857\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1571314857\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a \"Best Book of 2019\" by the New York Public Library\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry\u003cbr\u003eSociety of Midland Authors Honoree in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn March 2011, a tsunami caused by an earthquake collided with nearby power plant Fukushima Daiichi, causing the only nuclear disaster in history to rival Chernobyl in scope. Those who stayed at the plant to stabilize the reactors, willing to sacrifice their lives, became known internationally as the Fukushima 50.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003etsunami vs. the fukushima 50\u003c\/em\u003e, Lee Ann Roripaugh takes a piercing, witty, and ferocious look into the heart of the disaster. Here we meet its survivors and victims, from a pearl-catcher to a mild-mannered father to a drove of mindless pink robots. And here, too, we meet Roripaugh's unforgettable Tsunami: a force of nature, femme fatale, and \"annihilatrix.\" Tsunami is part hero and part supervillain--angry, loud, forcefully defending her rights as a living being in contemporary industrialized society. As humanity rebuilds in disaster's wake, Tsunami continues to wreak her own havoc, battling humans' self-appointed role as colonizer of Earth and its life-forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She's an unsubtle thief \/ a giver of gifts,\" Roripaugh writes of Tsunami, who spits garbage from the Pacific back into now-pulverized Fukushima. As Tsunami makes visible her suffering, the wrath of nature scorned, humanity has the opportunity to reconsider the trauma they cause Earth and each other. But will they look?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390554603565,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_c70562d8-866b-4e47-9ce3-f7e76c5d0f53.jpg?v=1787344373","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/tsunami-vs-the-fukushima-50-poems-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}