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Torontology
In a world where the poet is a filter, a cultural recombinator, this collection of poems sifts through the blur of data and stimulus to find the gold in the dross. The author explores the poetics of constraint and the practice of unconstrained writing. That pop song buzzing through your head? The TV show that’s become a guilty pleasure? That flock of pre-teens behind you on the subway? They’re all as “real” and poetic as classical tropes, archetypes, and forms. In Cain’s terms, context is always as important as content, and the quotidian is more expansive than ever imagined.
I Can Say Interpellation
Weary of saccharine stories and tired themes when reading poetry for children? Angered at seeing your children indoctrinated into adhering to patriarchy, neoliberal capitalism, and general compliance with authority each time they open a book of verse? I Can Say Interpellation remedies these problems by reconfiguring some of the best-known children's rhymes for political purpose. Taking French theorist Guy Debord's idea of detournement (a deflection or divergence of existing visual images and mass media), and applying it to children's poetry, experimental poet Stephen Cain redeploys the rhymes and images of well-known juvenile poems against their dominant messages. The result is a new poetic landscape where the Fox in Socks becomes Marx on a Box, where Goodnight Moon is a meditation on possible nuclear annihilation, and The Owl and the Pussycat features debates on the importance of pre-emptive military strikes to U.S. foreign policy. Humorous, yet politically insightful, I Can Say Interpellation is for very smart kidsï¿1/2and for adults who want to keep them that way.
Decisions
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Deception from Within
Having successfully rescued a group of women from the clutches of a Turkish slave trader, Jonnie McBride returns to Thailand where he is contacted by the CIA to carry-out a covert operation to assassinate the leaders of the Philippines terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and the Muslim Islamic Liberation Front. He is informed that the leaders intend to gather on the island of Siquijor in the Philippines in order to join forces. McBride and a select number of his elite team meet in Cebu before traveling to Leyte and then on to their targets in Siquijor but fi nd the mission is compromised by a mole within the CIA.
Terry the Tramp
This book takes you on a turbulent ride through the life of Terry ?the Tramp,” long-time leader of one of the most notorious motorcycle clubs of all time, the Vagos MC.
Execution's Doorstep
The stories of five men unfairly condemned to death
False Friends
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. Praise for False Friends "In False Friends, Cain revels in a play of sound and meaning, bouncing his narrative as a pinball across the field of language." --rob mclennan's blog
Dyslexicon
A double-lunged bong hit of mid-Eighties post-punk college rock, Gertrude Stein, art films, and the comedic legacy of Laurel and Hardy (including such great standup teams as HD and Ezra Pound, Jesus and Judas, and Steve McCaffery and bpNichol). Jeff Derksen says: 'If reading is sixty-nining, then dyslexicon satisfies at both ends. Stephen Cain disentangles everyday life into its constituent emotional, intellectual, sexual and cultural parts - people, the city, books, music - only to recombine them into a new set of relations ... It's a sexy m-f of a book. Put it on your turntables.'
