mnartists.org: Seamas Cain

THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS

Seamas Cain — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:27:43 GMT

[i][b]The Dangerous Islands[/b][/i] by Séamas Cain is an unusual coming-of-age tale. The novel describes the experiences and emotions of a young man living through the era of Civil War in Northern Ireland from 1965 to 1998. The hero of this novel, an Irish-American like Cain, undergoes a journey of the mind as well as a journey of the body, in a process of self-realization in another country. Indeed, Cain based many of the protagonist's activities on his own thoughts, dreams, and experiences in Northern Ireland in that era. Says Cain, “In my youth, in Northern Ireland, I was active in the Civil Rights Movement, People's Democracy, and later the Peace Movement. My experiences from those times were filtered into the composition of [i][b]The Dangerous Islands[/b][/i]. Indeed, much of the novel was written in Belfast or Limavady and Dungiven — though I am a Minnesota Irishman.” [i][b][/b][/i] [i][b]The Dangerous Islands[/b][/i] is a moral history of the Irish and Irish-American activists of the generation of the 'Sixties. Or, more accurately, it is a history of their emotions and their enthusiasms. Thus it is a non-classic coming-of-age tale. It is a story of self-education and self-development, with convictions and disillusionment. But it resists all pigeonholing, for it is also a novel of ideas ranging across literature, philosophy and politics.

so slow is the tulip

Seamas Cain — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:10:26 GMT

by the crooked land's arm

Seamas Cain — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:08:18 GMT

the liquid animals

Seamas Cain — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:04:53 GMT

consequences

Seamas Cain — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:29:41 GMT

>>>submerse

Seamas Cain — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:06:18 GMT

a martlet walked over the sand as osmosis of the ideograms the pianist did not hear a sea-surge the sand that night like an attorney's back polyps & octopus, counterpointed with carved stone

POÈMES 2009

Seamas Cain — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:39:01 GMT

Thirty minimalist poems in French.

application: Poèmes 2009

WHITE CLOUD

Seamas Cain — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:45:58 GMT

A MOUNTAIN

Seamas Cain — Fri, 06 Sep 2002 16:37:18 GMT

PANTHERS

Seamas Cain — Thu, 22 Aug 2002 20:46:58 GMT

COLORED SUGAR

Seamas Cain — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:47:03 GMT

SPLINTERWELD

Seamas Cain — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:42:53 GMT

THE TOURMALINE syrinx beehive crippled pallium emerald wolf canopy pelican daisy dabchick moss Valhalla i burn & burn the hollow wooden cow of Pasiphae & the chancel arch or the tornado in a closet i fret the hawks atop a ladder & black firs in the background (i shred your goldilocks beneath my gold helmet) red flower & red rhinoceros the ruby shattered in Onuphrius's ice white dittany & yellow iris melt the gargoyle inside the church but the onyx & liver in my nostrils crushes triangles with the apex down & glues a bitter herb on the tau cross sneezing on a sunday (for safety seek) the devil will have you the whole of the week i see a man suspended in & out of a basket by a rope the caduceus with maize & verbena chrysoberyl mustard of Lorraine as the cedrela tree shrinks in me the bagpipe with tourmaline today & the mandorla under the sweet justica of orchids & my sour ice ... Francesca di Rimini twists & turns before the naked adolescent Paolo

A CYME LAND

Seamas Cain — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:55:32 GMT

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GRAY SANDS ON GREEN SANDS

Seamas Cain — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 17:17:55 GMT

YOU REMEMBER THE LONG OARS

Seamas Cain — Fri, 02 Aug 2002 16:17:54 GMT