The most radical poetry prompts us to take action. This collection from poet, publisher, digital media artist, and small press powerhouse Kyle Flemmer is a rousing to, as the author describes it, “bluntly name colonization, neoliberalism, and gentrification as instruments of power exercising control over the land.” Building Permit: Capitol Hill is a little bit prose poetry, a little bit visual poetry, a little bit photo-collage, and a lotta bit decolonial force. Inspired by the photo-collage work of Roy Miki and the critical-creative lexicons of Monika Kin Gagnon, this collection uses real estate terminology, archival materials, and the author’s own photographs to reconsider the re/development of the Capitol Hill neighbourhood in Calgary.
Printed in a limited run of fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook is written and photographed and collaged by Kyle Flemmer. Typeset by Dani Spinosa who also made a chunky mess of one of the author’s photographs for the cover.
The most radical poetry prompts us to take action. This collection from poet, publisher, digital media artist, and small press powerhouse Kyle Flemmer is a rousing to, as the author describes it, “bluntly name colonization, neoliberalism, and gentrification as instruments of power exercising control over the land.” Building Permit: Capitol Hill is a little bit prose poetry, a little bit visual poetry, a little bit photo-collage, and a lotta bit decolonial force. Inspired by the photo-collage work of Roy Miki and the critical-creative lexicons of Monika Kin Gagnon, this collection uses real estate terminology, archival materials, and the author’s own photographs to reconsider the re/development of the Capitol Hill neighbourhood in Calgary.
Printed in a limited run of fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook is written and photographed and collaged by Kyle Flemmer. Typeset by Dani Spinosa who also made a chunky mess of one of the author’s photographs for the cover.