Li'l Bastard

<DIV><p><B>Finalist for the 2012 Governor General''s Award for Poetry</B><BR><p>Melding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, <I>Li''l Bastard</I> 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—"chubby sonnets"—explores the poet''s obsessions (food, aging, baseball, beer, and <I>Barnaby Jones</I>) and map his midlife crisis on a wild flight through Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas, and Los Angeles. Poignant and often achingly funny, <I>Li''l Bastard</I> will cement David McGimpsey''s status as a beloved original.</p><p><B>David McGimpsey</B> is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, including <I>Lardcake</I> and <I>Sitcom</I>. He teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.</p><BR></DIV>