McGimpsey’s unruly, uncontained poems marry formal ingenuity and a raucous, hilarious sensibility. He’s also unafraid to poke at the eyes of our more inflated literary pretensions.
Li'l Bastard
Découvrez Li'l Bastard, un recueil de poésie audacieux où David McGimpsey mêle humour et mélancolie pour explorer la crise de la quarantaine.
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry
Chicagoland hot-dog stands are open late.
What the fuck you want?' one cashier asks me.
What the fuck did I want? Hope? A car? To write?
Jesus, I knew - just give me a Pepsi.
David McGimpsey's ?fth collection of poems takes to new levels the melding of the deeply personal and the culturally popular that drove his acclaimed book Sitcom (nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry). This is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar.
Written in part as an homage to the poetic idols of McGimpsey's youth, John Berryman and Robert Lowell, Li'l Bastard is a collection of 'chubby sonnets' - sixteen-line poems organized into eight longer 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 tones 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 ?ight that touches down in Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas and L.A.
Poignant and often achingly funny, Li'l Bastard will no doubt cement McGimpsey's status as a beloved and ever-surprising original.
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Chicagoland hot-dog stands are open late.
What the fuck you want?' one cashier asks me.
What the fuck did I want? Hope? A car? To write?
Jesus, I knew - just give me a Pepsi.
David McGimpsey's ?fth collection of poems takes to new levels the melding of the deeply personal and the culturally popular that drove his acclaimed book Sitcom (nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry). This is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar.
Written in part as an homage to the poetic idols of McGimpsey's youth, John Berryman and Robert Lowell, Li'l Bastard is a collection of 'chubby sonnets' - sixteen-line poems organized into eight longer 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 tones 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 ?ight that touches down in Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas and L.A.
Poignant and often achingly funny, Li'l Bastard will no doubt cement McGimpsey's status as a beloved and ever-surprising original.
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Li'l Bastard offre une plongée unique dans l’univers poétique de David McGimpsey, où l’humour et la mélancolie se mêlent pour explorer des thèmes universels comme le vieillissement, l’amour et la quête de sens. Ce recueil se distingue par son style audacieux et ses « chubby sonnets », une forme poétique originale qui rend hommage aux grands maîtres tout en restant profondément ancré dans la culture contemporaine.
Le recueil aborde des thèmes variés tels que la crise de la quarantaine, l’identité culturelle entre le Canada et les États-Unis, la culture populaire (baseball, télévision, nourriture rapide), l’amour et la mort, ainsi que la quête de sens dans un monde moderne. McGimpsey utilise un ton tantôt humoristique, tantôt poignant pour explorer ces sujets.
Li'l Bastard s’adresse aux amateurs de poésie contemporaine qui recherchent une écriture à la fois accessible et profonde. Les lecteurs sensibles à l’humour, à la culture populaire et aux réflexions sur la vie moderne y trouveront un écho particulier. Ce recueil est aussi idéal pour ceux qui aiment découvrir des formes poétiques innovantes.
Avec ce smartbook, vous pourrez interroger le texte sur les inspirations de McGimpsey, les références culturelles cachées, les techniques d’écriture des « chubby sonnets », ou encore les liens entre les poèmes et les expériences personnelles de l’auteur. Vous pourrez aussi demander des analyses thématiques ou des comparaisons avec d’autres œuvres poétiques.
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