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Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something

by (author) Paul Vermeersch

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2014
Category
Canadian, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770412224
    Publish Date
    Oct 2014
    List Price
    $18.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770906303
    Publish Date
    Oct 2014
    List Price
    $14.99

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Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas, erasures, text collage, and other forms to imagine a post-apocalyptic literature built, or rebuilt, from the rubble of the texts that came before.

 

About the author

Paul Vermeersch is the author of three collections of poetry: The Fat Kid, Burn (a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award) and, most recently, Between the Walls. He is also the editor of the anthology The I.V. Lounge Reader. His next collection, The Reinvention of the Human Hand, is forthcoming in 2010. His poetry has been published widely in literary journals and magazines. He lives in Toronto, where he works as a teacher and serves as poetry editor for Insomniac Press. He is a long-time reader and admirer of the work of Al Purdy.

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Editorial Reviews

 

“Demonstrating remarkable virtuosity and range, Vermeersch here assumes the contradictory mantle of the prophetic, post-apocalyptic poet, and the poems suitably offer a paradoxical mix of cynicism and hope.” — Quill & Quire

 

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