Li'l Bastard (häftad, eng)

Finalist for the 2012 Governor General''s Award for Poetry

Melding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, Li''l Bastard 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 Barnaby Jones) and map his midlife crisis on a wild flight through Montreal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas, and Los Angeles.

Poignant and often achingly funny, Li''l Bastard will cement David McGimpsey''s status as a beloved original.

David McGimpsey is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, including Lardcake and Sitcom. He teaches at Concordia University in Montreal.