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False Friends

By Stephen , Cain

Book information

Publisher
BookThug
Year
2017
ISBN
9781771662901, 9781771662918, 9781771662925, 9781771662932, 1771662905, 1771662913, 1771662921
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
813 kB (832539 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
127 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Canadian poetry;Canadian poetry--21st century;Cana

Description

"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 discourse."--;Stanzas -- Mod cons -- Idiosyntactic -- Wordwards -- Etc phrases -- Zoom -- Proverbs for the jilted generation. Stanzas -- Mod cons -- Idiosyntactic -- Wordwards -- Etc phrases -- Zoom -- Proverbs for the jilted generation.

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