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A powerful book-length poem on environmental destruction and the violences of colonial nation-states from the acclaimed author of Settler Education. Fast Commute is a book-length poem that exposes the links between environmental destruction, unfettered capitalism, and white supremacy. This poem sings lament for places in flux, where industrial, commercial, or suburban development encroaches or invades. From the 401 to Refinery Row east of Edmo...

A tone-perfect elegiac meditation on the impossibility of engaging with painful history and the necessity of doing so." - Margaret Atwood, Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for Poetry In the stunning poems of Settler Education, Laurie D. Graham vividly explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies to unfettered settlement...