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American Standard/Canada Dry

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  • ISBN-13: 9781552451526
  • ISBN: 1552451526
  • Publication Date: 2001
  • Publisher: Coach House Books

AUTHOR

Stephen Cain

SUMMARY

We waxed them hard with cobras Disinfecting circuses In our underwoods of Ajax A semi-automatic for the people Capitalist corsairs drunk On glory & gummy bears With Canada/US relations in the proverbial toilet (American Standard, of course), Stephen Cain's third book blenderizes 'pop' culture, politics and poetry to befuddle the border. From the Howl -like opening rant about the militarism of the US to the satirical 'History of Canada,' this collection interrogates nationalism and cultural identity on both sides of the 49th parallel and attempts to show that Auden was wrong: poetry can make things happen. American Standard/Canada Dry includes odes to video games, poems culled from Viagra junk mail and CNN reports on the war, ruminations on Canadian poets, travelogues, concrete poems, mistranslations of bird poems, and riffs on peculiar Canadianisms, including homophonic translations of Quebecois lyrics. Deftly oscillating between vitriolic verse and humour, the poems in American Standard/Canada Dry interrogate poetics, nationalism and Tim Hortons as thoroughly as a burly border avant-guard; they're your passport to the land of a new political poetry.Stephen Cain is the author of 'American Standard/Canada Dry', published 2001 under ISBN 9781552451526 and ISBN 1552451526.

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