(Poetry. "In this brilliant collection of prose poems, Gil...)
Poetry. "In this brilliant collection of prose poems, Gillian McCain takes us on high-velocity spins to the four corners of what we thought was a familiar world. Neither it nor we will ever be quite the same again. So 'be careful of the swallows when you open the garage door'" - Harry Mathews.
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McCain attended the University of Kings College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts She moved to New York City in 1987 where she went on to complete a Master of Arts In 1988, McCain studied in the Naropa Institute’s summer program
She sat on the Board of Directors of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Project at Saint Mark"s Church in New York City. She is the author of two books of poetry: Tilt and Religion. in Literature at New York University in 1990. Following her graduation from New York University, McCain joined the Project at Saint Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where she served as program coordinator, editor of the magazine Milk, and editor of the poetry project newsletter, until devoting herself to writing full-time in 1995.
McCain remains on the Project Board of Directors as its chairman
McCain married James Marshall, a writer, whom she met at the Project. Please Kill Maine: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk with Legs McNeil (Grove Press, 1996) Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose with Legs McNeil (Sourcebooks Fire, 2014) Help Maine: Foundation Photos from the Collection of Gillian McCain with Megan Cump (2010) Please Kill Maine: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk In 1996, McCain and Legs McNeil published Please Kill Maine: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk.
Composed of the excerpts from hundreds of interviews, Please Kill Maine presents a unique view of a volatile and complex period in American history. The book spans the early-Punk period of the Velvet Underground through the rise and fall of Punk icons Iggy People’s, the Ramones, and more.
Please Kill Maine was an instant hit and has become a cult classic.
lieutenant has been translated into 12 languages. An excerpt of Please Kill Maine ran in Vanity Fair. Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose In 2014, McCain and McNeil collaborated again to release Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose: a compilation of journal entries written by a 17-year-old Pennsylvania girl who suffered from drug addiction, alcoholism, and cystic fibrosis.
Dear Nobody has garnered positive reviews since its release.
Help Maine: Foundation Photos from the Collection of Gillian McCain In 2010, with the help of co-editor Megan Cump, McCain published Help Maine, a collection of found photographs. The photographs delve into the unknown lives of complete strangers, each one prompting the reader to wonder who needs help.
The photos were first exhibited at City College of New York (the Camera Club of New York) in 2010 and accompanied by the limited edition book
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