Sunny Ways by Ryan Fitzpatrick Paperback Book 9781778430183

An offbeat examination of the denials that underpin extractive capitalismFrom the cratered lake of Chennai India to the environmental racism of Neon Genesis Evangelions Tokyo3 Sunny Ways oscillates between images of environmental collapse and resistanceStanding waist deep in the massive tailing ponds of Albertaamp8217s 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