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Brooklyn Copeland's Northermost is a curious little ebook. The cover contains an image of an iceberg off Argentina, and Copeland makes various references to ice throughout the book, though most of it seems far north ice.
I once said, You can smell the ice
before you get to it.
Greenland, she secretes this
highly personal warning—a door
on the buoy at the pole.
Yet, the book contains images that seem to be as much about women as ice, as if she is describing different towns as different women or women as town or women as northernmost towns. It's a confusing but interesting dilemma to figure out as a reader because she also uses some sailing references, so the question becomes one of is this the "she" of the ship or the land or the compass or some real she? And ultimately, what do the she(s) have to do with the frozen places? Essentially, this is fun reading, and the work has a nice style.
Brooklyn Copeland's Northermost is a curious little ebook. The cover contains an image of an iceberg off Argentina, and Copeland makes various references to ice throughout the book, though most of it seems far north ice.
I once said, You can smell the ice
before you get to it.
Greenland, she secretes this
highly personal warning—a door
on the buoy at the pole.
Yet, the book contains images that seem to be as much about women as ice, as if she is describing different towns as different women or women as town or women as northernmost towns. It's a confusing but interesting dilemma to figure out as a reader because she also uses some sailing references, so the question becomes one of is this the "she" of the ship or the land or the compass or some real she? And ultimately, what do the she(s) have to do with the frozen places? Essentially, this is fun reading, and the work has a nice style.
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