Poetry. "Cain has begun to distinguish himself as an important innovator who can offer a radical lexicon for a future poetry"—Christian Bök. Stephen Cain's newest book is beautifully printed in an innovative spiralbound format that allows the book to literally stand up on its own, desk-calendar style. Karen Mac Cormack writes: "Enter Stephen Cain's alternative world of person, place, thing to access excess, where subtlety will get you everywhere, even if you skip to the end to see how it starts. The invitation here is to search for a non-comparative rose, and each readers fins a Q to clue. 'Oui' is a verb Cain conjugates in all ways 'we' turn to his dazzling spin."

Author City: TORONTO, ON CAN

Stephen Cain is the author of four poetry collections—I CAN SAY INTERPELLATION (2011), AMERICAN STANDARD/CANADA DRY (2005), Torontology (2001), and DYSLEXICON (1998)—and a collaborative series of micro-fictions, Double Helix (2006), written with Jay MillAr. He is also co-author, with Tim Conley, of The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (2006). He lives in Toronto where has been a literary editor at the Queen Street Quarterly and fiction editor at Insomniac Press.

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