Stephen Cain

I Can Say Interpellation

Illustrator: Scala, Clelia

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Produktbeschreibung

Poetry. Art by Clelia Scala. 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 preemptive military strikes to U.S. foreign policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book*hug Press
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Altersempfehlung: 3 bis 10 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781897388846
• ISBN-10: 1897388845
• Artikelnr.: 45613155

Autorenporträt

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.