{"product_id":"walking-and-stealing-9781771669108","title":"Walking and Stealing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this triptych of serial poems steeped in baseball and Toronto, Stephen Cain considers urban affairs and culture through playful, revelatory devices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Walking \u0026amp; Stealing\" was composed between innings of his son's little league baseball games. The sport becomes a site for explorations of duration, association, and subjectivity. The ninety-nine poems of \"Intentional Walks\" follow mapped routes throughout the city to study the relationship between thinking and walking. The nine cantos in \"Tag \u0026amp; Run\" are constructed using baseball's magic number nine, creating a literary puzzle in which the author \"tags\" a series of moments in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, these works skewer traditional, masculinist, and often-solipsistic perspectives on where we live and inhabit, instead offering a new way to consider the relationship between culture and space. \u003ci\u003eWalking and Stealing\u003c\/i\u003e is where memes meet psychogeography in a collection from a brilliant poet at the top of their game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSTEPHEN CAIN\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and a dozen chapbooks, including \u003ci\u003eFalse Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI Can Say Interpellation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZoom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEtc Phrases\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Standard\/ Canada Dry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTorontology\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003edyslexicon\u003c\/i\u003e. His academic publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages\u003c\/i\u003e (co-written with Tim Conley) and a critical edition of bpNichol's early long poems: \u003ci\u003ebp: beginnings\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Toronto where he teaches avant-garde and Canadian literature at York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50910963433746,"sku":"9781771669108","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b955688-110a-4e14-9c8a-3dbaeba20690.jpg?v=1738721634","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-and-stealing-9781771669108","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}