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“david mcgimpsey”

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  • Hamburger Valley, California

    by David McGimpsey ...
    Canadian poetry, well done, with everything, to go. Hamburger Valley, California is David McGimpsey's funniest and most compelling collection to date. With his unapologetic love of popular culture, he presents an elaborate lyric postcard, which explores, from a most unprivileged seat on the cheapest bus, love and (somebody else's) fame. McGimpsey challenges the bonds of place in a global (American ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asbestos Heights

    by David McGimpsey ...
    Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for PoetryIf you tore off the tops of canola --yellow canola flowers -- would youjump in a tub of canola margarinejust to make the best of despair?Implored by concerned readers to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, David McGimpsey has composed a sequence of canonical noteÂbooks on all things 'poetic' and 'poetical.' Birds! Flowers! ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Li'l Bastard

    by David McGimpsey ...
    Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for PoetryDavid McGimpsey's fifth 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 ... Read more

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  • Sitcom

    by David McGimpsey ...
    Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey’s Sitcom is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself in demi-mondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of Hawaii Five-O – offering, along the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • The Wrong Cat

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    Like the people and animals in her new collection, Lorna Crozier “defies / the anecdotal, / goes for the lyric, / music made from / bone and muscle and the grace notes” of life. The poems in The Wrong Cat are vintage Crozier: sly, sexy, irreverent, and sad, and populated by fully realized characters whose stories take place in a small lyrical space. We learn about a mother’s last breath, the first ... Read more

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  • Inter Alia

    by David Seymour ...
    Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane for Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets. He is heir to the English metaphysical poets in many of his preoccupations, with a good dash of Robert Bly, but his ... Read more

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  • The Largeness of Rescue

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  • Short Haul Engine

    by Karen Solie ...
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    by Margaret Atwood ...
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