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Description
How do we navigate a world of fast-food joints, big-box stores and traffic jams, where people grandstand in the deli and homeless men announce the end of the world through "slats in the sky"? Where the cumulative result of our lifestyle is a gyre of garbage and plastic in the North Pacific? Al Rempel's This Isn't the Apocalypse We Hoped For addresses this concern with humility and compassion, as it takes us above the trees in a sky canoe and into the city, asking us to receive each kindness and press it close, while we journey across this earth we've inherited "with the tilt and skew of athletes."
Contributor Notes
Al Rempel graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Bachelor of Education. In 2000 he attended the Victoria School of Writing where he began submitting poetry. Al Rempel has previously published two books of poetry, understories (Caitlin Press 2010), and The Picket Fence Diaries (Lipstick Press 2010). His poems have also appeared in The Malahat Review, CV2, Event, and filling Station, and in anthologies such as The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2011. He currently lives in Prince George, BC, where he teaches at a high school.
Awards
- Short-listed, Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry
Editorial Review
“Rempel is a master at setting up straw men and then knocking them down. These are oral performance tricks, played almost pitch perfect. Reading this book is like watching both the poems and Rempel onstage, playing the crowd.”
—ARC Poetry Magazine
