Bøger af David McGimpsey

"e;David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetry-wise, and I'll stand on John Ashberry's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that."e;Michael RobbinsImplored to be "e;classy"e; and "e;real"e; for once, David McGimpsey looks to all things "e;poetic,"e; like birds and history, and instead finds true value and meaning in diet lime soda and the words to "e;Bootylicious."e; Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric with pop-culture verve to find a bold Late Night Petrarchan spirit.David McGimpsey is the author of several books of poetry and short fiction. He is also a musician, a fiction editor for Joyland, and his travel writing is a regular feature of enRoute magazine. He teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.

"e;McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack."e;The Washington PostMelding 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"e;chubby sonnets"e;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.

Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpseys Sitcom is both serious poetry and a work of comedy.Where Timon of Athens meets Shania Twain, that's where you'll find Sitcom. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself in demi-mondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of Hawaii Five-O offering, along the way, a sincere contemplation of mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. In between, you'll find Auden, Arthur Carlson, oper, Girls Gone Wild and the lead from Suddenly Susan's turn as a creative writing student.Unembarrassed by its literary allusions or its hi-lo hybridity, Sitcoms strategic and encompassing voice is prepared for each comedic disaster and is, somehow, always ready for next weeks episode.