Böcker av ryan fitzpatrick

No Depression in Heaven asks how we respond to bad times. Is it better to look backward to a seemingly better past, longing for a way to make things great again? Or is it best to stare into the abyss of the future, gambling that entry into heaven will finally provide release from a weary life? Rejecting both of these dangerous horizons and choosing instead to remain resolutely in present uncertainty, No Depression in Heaven addresses our latter-day anxiety through poetic improvisation, using the text as a space of play and experimentation. Drawing inspiration from a variety of sources, both musical and poetic - and taking its title from a famous Carter Family song - it asks what it means to hold onto something toxic because of the comforts it affords, to daydream about days long past rather than gripping the reins of the present.Written amid country music's ascent in popularity, No Depression in Heaven consists of ten "tracks" that each take up a rhythm, only to bend it out of shape. This is a book that pulls on its boots, tilts its hat, and brushes the dust off its Nudie suit before tipping language out of key.

An off-beat examination of the denials that underpin extractive capitalism. From the cratered lake of Chennai, India to the environmental racism of Neon Genesis Evangelion's Tokyo-3, Sunny Ways oscillates between images of environmental collapse and resistance. Standing waist deep in the massive tailing ponds of Alberta's Tar Sands, Sunny Ways wades through the tangled complicities of climate catastrophe. In the process, the book grapples with the failure of political hope and the intransigence of climate change denialism. Fitzpatrick channels his experiences growing up in the big sky economic pragmatism of Calgary, where oil pays the rent and puts food on the table, into an essayistic pair of long poems that echo the ecological poetics of writers like Rita Wong, Stephen Collis, and Juliana Spahr.