Cain, Séamas.

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Dublin, The Red Jasper, 2008. 8°. 120 pages. Illustrated softcover. First Edition. Excellent, as new condition, with only very minor signs of wear.

Cain, in his youth, participated in Martin Luther King’s Selma freedom march [a formative and decisive moment in his life]. Later, Cain was one of the organizers of the National Mobilization against the Vietnam War, and a protester against the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago [the protests effectively ended the political careers of Hubert Humphrey and President Lyndon Johnson].
Séamas Cain was a face-to-face friend of Dorothy Day, Sam and Esther Dolgoff, the novelist and playwright Jean Genet, the poet Allen Ginsberg, Paul Goodman, Ammon Hennacy, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton, and the poet Kenneth Rexroth – as well as
members of the Living Theater, the Firehouse Theater, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the initiators of the FLUXUS movement in the arts, etc.

• Keywords: Experimental Poetry · fluxus · Gaeilge · Gaeilge – Rare · Irish Literature – 20th Century · Irish Poetry · Irish Poetry – Rare · Lyric · Poetry
• Language: Gaelic
• ISBN: 0956300103
• Inventory Number: 31312AB

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