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this poem aint got no manners

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: SCRUTINY | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...characters is not balanced (as it is in his later work) with compassion for them, and the pieces show only too clearly for what they are--raw, condescending attempts by an educated ex-English professor to make fun of the common folk. Fortunately, Cain later loosened up on the aint's and the you all's, and began constructing his characters around more than just their accents. Yet despite their shortcomings these dialogues reveal just enough of what would become widely known as Cain's "hard-boiled" writing to warrant inclusion in the collection, and, as Norman Mailer said...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Raising Cain | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Foragers and Mutants | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...just as dead from a kick in the head as you can from (gunpowder) but its the natur of it gets people as cited. I mean your foot is all ways on the end of your leg innit. So if youre going to kick some 1 to death it aint all that thrilling...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Foragers and Mutants | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...example, is not exactly a conventional grabber: "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen." Even patient readers are likely to riffle pages at this point, trying to find out how long such odd English continues. Answer: all the way to the end. And getting there is well worth the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Newspell | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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