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    False Friends

    By Stephen Cain

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    About this ebook

    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookhug Press
    Release dateMar 1, 2017
    ISBN9781771662925
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    Stephen Cain

    Born in England in 1952, Stephen Cain has traveled the world over the course of thirty years during which he has mixed and shared time with some of the elite armed forces that have carried out numerous operations. Stephen still travels and is constantly gathering more information in order to thrill his readers. 'DECEPTION FROM WITHIN' is his second book which succeeds 'SECOND TIME DEAD'.

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