{"product_id":"9781770564152","title":"Asbestos Heights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf you tore off the tops of canola --\u003cbr\u003eyellow canola flowers -- would you\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ejump in a tub of canola margarine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ejust to make the best of despair?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImplored 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 Fair-bound collection of lyrics set in the working­-class belvedere of \u003cem\u003eAsbestos Heights\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmong the refreshing lemon-­lime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to 'Bootylicious,' \u003cem\u003eAsbestos Heights\u003c\/em\u003e amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop \u003cem\u003esavoir faire\u003c\/em\u003e to find 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetry­wise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.'\u003cbr\u003e-- Michael Robbins\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135314903280,"sku":"9781770564152","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770564152_p0.jpg?v=1763706771","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770564152","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}