Li'l Bastard
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
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 152
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781552452486
- Genres
- poetry, canada
- Release date
- 2011
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