Li'l Bastard by McGimpsey, David

Li'l Bastard (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781552452486)

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Li'l Bastard by McGimpsey, David

Li'l Bastard

$16.95
Li'l Bastard by McGimpsey, David

Li'l Bastard

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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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.




Author: David McGimpsey
ISBN-10: 1552452484
ISBN-13: 9781552452486
Publisher: Coach House Books
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2011
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist
By David McGimpsey
By David McGimpsey
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David McGimpsey: David McGimpsey was born and raised in Montreal. He is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, including Lardcake and Sitcom (now in its second printing), which was a finalist for both the A.M. Klein Prize and the ReLit Award. In 2009, the CBC listed David as one of Canada's ten best English-language poets. He has a PhD in Literature (specializing in American fiction) and is the author of the award-winning study Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. McGimpsey writes a regular humour column called 'The Self-Esteem Workout' for Montreal's Matrix Magazine and the 'Sandwich of the Month' column as a contributing editor for EnRoute (AirCanada's in-flight magazine). David lives in the Mile-End district of Montreal and teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.

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