- Table of Contents; Uncanticle; Disaster; White Noise; Untraceable; Uncleaved; Phantom Pantoum; Theories of Flow; Hover; Search Party, Called Off; Uncollected; How It Would Be Different If We Had His Body; Fare; Things That Aren't Supposed to Happen Remind Me of My Uncle; Map of the Disaster Site; Morphology; My Mother Adds the Name of Her Brother, Missing on Denali since 1967, to Her Parents' Headstone; Ten Variations on a Weight-Bearing Air; Aftermath; The Fold; Ever Aftermath; Head Count; Unconsoled; Uncalculable; Test; Most Days; Quaking Aspen.
- Things That Aren't Supposed to Happen Remind Me of My UncleLike Any History, a Family History Repeats; Five Ways of Resisting Nothing; The Beginner's Guide to Endings; Meanwhile; K Street Hangout; What My Grandfather Heard; 22; Glacial Erasure; Nocturne with Inertia; The Relief Map Fails to Relieve; Unchronicled; Heresy; Madonna and Particle Child : My Grandfather Outlives His Son; Uncertainty Principle; Facts about Alaska; Unreachable; Nocturne without Counterexample; Glacial Erasure; Talkeetna; Nocturne without U-Turn; A Brief History of Risk; Photos of Men before Disasters.
When she was a toddler, Jessica Goodfellow's twenty-two-year-old uncle, along with six other climbers from the 1967 Wilcox Expedition to Denali, was lost in an unprecedented ten-day storm blasting winds of up to three-hundred miles per hour. Just as North America's highest peak is so massive that it has its own distinct weather system changeable and perilous, subject to sudden whiteout conditions a family whose loved one is irretrievably lost has a grief so blinding and vast that it also creates its own capricious internal weather, one that lasts for generations. Whiteout is Goodfellow's account of growing up in this unnavigable and often unspoken-of climate of bereavement. Although her poems begin with a missing body, they are not an elegy. Instead, Goodfellow struggles with the absence of cultural ritual for the uncontainable loss of a beloved one whose body is never recovered and whose final story is unknowable. There is no solace here, no possible reconciliation. Instead, Whiteout is a defiant gaze into a storm that engulfs both the wildness of Alaska and of familial mourning.
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