{"product_id":"asbestos-heights-david-mcgimpsey-9781552453094","title":"Asbestos Heights","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf you tore off the tops of canola --\u003cbr\u003e yellow canola flowers -- would you\u003cbr\u003e jump in a tub of canola margarine\u003cbr\u003ejust to make the best of despair?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImplored by concerned readers to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, David McGimpsey has composed a sequence of canonical note-books on all things 'poetic' and 'poetical.' Birds  Flowers  History  Sad leaders  The word 'aubade'  They're all here, in a serial, State Fair-bound collection of lyrics set in the working-class belvedere of \u003ci\u003eAsbestos Heights.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the refreshing lemon-lime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to 'Bootylicious, ' \u003ci\u003eAsbestos Heights\u003c\/i\u003e amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to ?nd his boldest collection. Imagine Petrarch in a Tweet war about where to buy a good pair of dad jeans. Imagine Yeats but with a lot fewer swans. Imagine a poet who was told long ago that nothing good ever comes out of a place like Asbestos Heights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetry-wise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.' -- Michael Robbins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid McGimpsey\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books of poetry and short fiction. His poetry has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the A.M. Klein Prize. He is also a musician, a fiction editor for \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e, and his travel writing is a regular feature of \u003ci\u003eenRoute\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He lives in Montr al, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David McGimpsey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 155245309X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552453094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.90w x 0.40d","brand":"David McGimpsey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939581624575,"sku":"9781552453094","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6528e1bf-7e4d-4616-9387-e32507b88ce4.jpg?v=1681442336","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/asbestos-heights-david-mcgimpsey-9781552453094","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}