{"product_id":"9781770562974","title":"Li'l Bastard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eDavid McGimpsey's fifth collection of poems takes to new levels the melding of the deeply personal and the culturally popular that drove his acclaimed book \u003cem\u003eSitcom\u003c\/em\u003e (nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry) – this is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in part as an homage to the poetic idols of his youth, John Berryman and Robert Lowell, \u003cem\u003eLi'l Bastard\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of 'chubby sonnets' – sixteen-line poems organized in eight twenty-poem sequences – that explore the poet's obsessions and engagements with America and Canada, popular culture, love and death, aging, baseball and beer and Barnaby Jones. Adopting a wild array of tone and artistic strategies, from picaresque to fantasy, to observational humour and the simple song lyric, these poems map the poet's midlife crisis on a wild flight that touches down in Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas and Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoignant and often achingly funny, \u003cem\u003eLi'l Bastard\u003c\/em\u003e will no doubt cement McGimpsey's status as a beloved and ever-surprising original.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135258673392,"sku":"9781770562974","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770562974_p0.jpg?v=1763706805","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770562974","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}