Ugly Decade

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This book is about cities and trees, about deeper social justice, about working less and living more, about decolonizing temporalities, about mutual aid, about human and more-than-human labour, and about futurity. Its about trying to live through the last ugly decade. And its kind of angry-funny too.

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Jeff Derksen is a poet, critic, and professor who lives in Vancouver and Vienna. His poetry books include The Vestiges, Transnational Muscle Cars, and Down Time (Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize). His critical books include After Euphoria, Annhilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics, and the folio How High is the City, How Deep is Our Love. He works on artistic research projects with the collective Urban Subjects: their books include The Militant Image Reader, Momentarily: Learning from Mega Events, and Autogestion: Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade. As curators, they brought The Vienna Model: Housing for the 21st Century to the Museum of Vancouver and curated the exhibition If Time Is Still Alive at Camera Austria. He was a founding member of both the Kootenay School of Writing and Artspeak Gallery. Derksen works at Simon Fraser University and is a Fullbright Fellow and former research fellow at the Centre for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center, CUNY.