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...