Barfly

<p><strong>A CBC Books Best Poetry Book of 2024 • A CBC Books Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 • A <em>Toronto Star</em> Most Anticipated Spring Title</strong><b><i></i></b></p><p><b><i>We’re in love, but we’re still Millennials. / What’s wrong with our hearts is congenital. </i></b></p><p>In <em>Barfly</em>, the poet comes back to haunt himself, and us. In this incomparable third collection, his first in a decade, Michael Lista returns to reinvent poetry with humour, pugnacity, and a deeply singular voice. Splicing Byronic rhymes and Auden’s meters with the twenty-first century irreverence of a late-stage Twitter feed, the poems in <i>Barfly </i>are alternatingly aggressive, sweet, deadly, and raw with a break-your-heart vulnerability.<br></p>