Li'l Bastard

ISBN-13: 9781552452486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 152 str.

David McGimpsey

Opis

Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry

Melding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, "Li'l Bastard" is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar. Written in part as an homage to John Berryman and Robert Lowell, this sequence of sixteen-line poems--"chubby sonnets"--explores the poet's obsessions (food, aging, baseball, beer, and "Barnaby Jones") and map his midlife crisis on a wild flight through Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas, and Los Angeles. Poignant and often achingly funny, "Li'l Bastard" will cement David McGimpsey's status as a beloved original.

David McGimpsey is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, including "Lardcake" and "Sitcom." He teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.