"It is the Third Millennium. The 20th century is a memory. Humans no longer walk on the moon. Passenger planes no longer fly at supersonic speeds. Disinformation overwhelms the legitimate news. The signs of our civilization's demise are all around us, but hope is not lost. In these poems, you will find a map through our dystopia and protection from all manner of monsters, both natural and human made. Only the products of our imaginations -- buildings and movies, daydreams and wondrous machines -- can show us how to transform our lives. Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy is a survival guide for the Dark Age that lies ahead" --…mehr
"It is the Third Millennium. The 20th century is a memory. Humans no longer walk on the moon. Passenger planes no longer fly at supersonic speeds. Disinformation overwhelms the legitimate news. The signs of our civilization's demise are all around us, but hope is not lost. In these poems, you will find a map through our dystopia and protection from all manner of monsters, both natural and human made. Only the products of our imaginations -- buildings and movies, daydreams and wondrous machines -- can show us how to transform our lives. Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy is a survival guide for the Dark Age that lies ahead" --
Paul Vermeersch is a poet, professor, artist, and editor. The author of five previous collections of poetry, including The Reinvention of the Human Hand, a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, and Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something, he teaches in the Creative Writing & Publishing program at Sheridan College and is senior editor at Wolsak and Wynn Publishers where he runs the Buckrider Books imprint. He lives in Toronto.
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1. 1: The Country of Previous Enthusiasms * The Country of Previous Enthusiasms * Without Architecture * Without Agriculture * Without Transportation * We Were the Sentinels * The Thought that Counts * The Used Future * > * The Prophets Want to Know If they Were Close 2. 2: Don’t Wait for the Woodsman * Grendel’s Mother * The Modern Novel * The Wilhelm Scream * The Vanishing Point * Liberty Warning Series #1 * The Modernist Canon * Tinnitus * Don’t Wait for the Woodsman 3. 3: Nu----- Rhymes for Nuclear Children * Doctor Doctor Oppenheimer * Hide Away, Anne * Enola Gay * Jack’s Car * Neil Flew to the Moon * First Centaur In Space * America Has Everything * Hush 4. 4: Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy * On Being Wrong * Bad at Flowers * Immortality * Liberty Warning Series #2 * Blue Lobster * Standing in Front of Antlers Mounted on a Wall so It Looks like They’re Growing from Your Head * The Failure of the Human Body as an Art Form * Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy 5. 5: Extinction Schedule * The Buzzing Is Incessant * Motel * Detroit * There Sure Are a Lot of Sirens Tonight * Long Pig * Ideal Workforce, Fig. 1 * The World Is so Difficult to Give Up * Extinction Schedule * The Birthday Chamber 6. 6: Leviathan * The Animals We Imagine * My Friend Can Imitate Pretty Much Anything * The Monument * Liberty Warning Series #3 * Repeat After Me * The Constellationification Effect * How to Protect Yourself from Monsters * Leviathan 7. Notes 8. Acknowledgements
1. 1: The Country of Previous Enthusiasms * The Country of Previous Enthusiasms * Without Architecture * Without Agriculture * Without Transportation * We Were the Sentinels * The Thought that Counts * The Used Future * > * The Prophets Want to Know If they Were Close 2. 2: Don’t Wait for the Woodsman * Grendel’s Mother * The Modern Novel * The Wilhelm Scream * The Vanishing Point * Liberty Warning Series #1 * The Modernist Canon * Tinnitus * Don’t Wait for the Woodsman 3. 3: Nu----- Rhymes for Nuclear Children * Doctor Doctor Oppenheimer * Hide Away, Anne * Enola Gay * Jack’s Car * Neil Flew to the Moon * First Centaur In Space * America Has Everything * Hush 4. 4: Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy * On Being Wrong * Bad at Flowers * Immortality * Liberty Warning Series #2 * Blue Lobster * Standing in Front of Antlers Mounted on a Wall so It Looks like They’re Growing from Your Head * The Failure of the Human Body as an Art Form * Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy 5. 5: Extinction Schedule * The Buzzing Is Incessant * Motel * Detroit * There Sure Are a Lot of Sirens Tonight * Long Pig * Ideal Workforce, Fig. 1 * The World Is so Difficult to Give Up * Extinction Schedule * The Birthday Chamber 6. 6: Leviathan * The Animals We Imagine * My Friend Can Imitate Pretty Much Anything * The Monument * Liberty Warning Series #3 * Repeat After Me * The Constellationification Effect * How to Protect Yourself from Monsters * Leviathan 7. Notes 8. Acknowledgements
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