If you tore off the tops of canola
yellow canola flowers would you
jump in a tub of canola margarine
just to make the best of despair?
Implored by concerned readers to be classy’ and real’ for once, David McGimpsey has composed a sequence of canonical notebooks on all things poetic’ and poetical.’ Birds! Flowers! History! Sad leaders! The word aubade’! They’re all here, in a serial, State Fairbound collection of lyrics set in the workingclass belvedere of Asbestos Heights.
Among the refreshing lemonlime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to Bootylicious,’Asbestos Heights 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.
'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
David McGimpsey 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 forJoyland, and his travel writing is a regular feature of enRoute magazine. He lives in Montréal, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.
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'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
'McGimpsey’s book is a masterful display of formal unity ... The work addresses the devalued currency of the overeducated, but underemployed, poet of art-culture, juxtaposing this experience with the esteemed currency of the undereducated, but overemployed, star of pop-culture ... It is also a book of significant pathos and submerged emotion.'
– QWF A.M. Klein Poetry Prize jury citation
David McGimpsey is the author of five collections of poetry including Li'l Bastard which was named one of the 'books of the year' by both theQuill & Quire and the National Post and was shortlisted for Canada's Governor General's Award. He is also the author of the short fiction collectionCertifiable and the award-winning critical study Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. Named by the CBC as one of the 'Top Ten English language poets in Canada,' his work was also the subject of the book of essaysPopulation Me: Essays on David McGimpsey. He lives in Montréal.
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