False Friends (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771662901)

Vendor: Stephen Cain
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Format: Paperback
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False Friends

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False Friends

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Format: Paperback
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False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term "false friends"--two words from different languages that appear to be related, but have fundamentally different meanings. In this book are poems both humourous and unforgiving that Cain uses to explore errors, misapprehensions, and mistranslations and offer insights into the "secret operations" hiding within everyday language.

These poems spin punk with pastoral, comic book with lyric, the misunderstood with the obvious. And at its core, False Friends is a thought-provoking investigation of the power of poetry as political dicourse.


Author: Stephen Cain
ISBN-10: 1771662905
ISBN-13: 9781771662901
Publisher: Book*hug Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2017
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
By Stephen Cain
By Stephen Cain
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STEPHEN CAIN is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and a dozen chapbooks, including False Friends, I Can Say Interpellation, Zoom, Etc Phrases, American Standard/ Canada Dry, Torontology, and dyslexicon. His academic publications include The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (co-written with Tim Conley) and a critical edition of bpNichol's early long poems: bp: beginnings. He lives in Toronto where he teaches avant-garde and Canadian literature at York University.

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