False Friends

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
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Author: Stephen Cain ISBN: 9781771662918
Publisher: BookThug Publication: March 1, 2017
Imprint: BookThug Language: English
Author: Stephen Cain
ISBN: 9781771662918
Publisher: BookThug
Publication: March 1, 2017
Imprint: BookThug
Language: English

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 I Can Say Interpellation

"Parody with a healthy dose of moral outrage." —4 Mothers Blog

"Cain has the delightful way of spinning each tale to suit his purpose and the results are often as hilarious as they are uncomfortably recognizable." —Broken Pencil

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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.

Praise for I Can Say Interpellation

"Parody with a healthy dose of moral outrage." —4 Mothers Blog

"Cain has the delightful way of spinning each tale to suit his purpose and the results are often as hilarious as they are uncomfortably recognizable." —Broken Pencil

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