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Asbestos Heights
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Asbestos Heights
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Implored by concerned readers to be classy’ and real’ for once, David McGimpsey has composed a sequence of canonical notebooks on all things poetic’ and poetical.’ Birds! Flowers! History! Sad leaders! The word aubade’! They’re all here, in a serial, State Fairbound collection of lyrics set in the workingclass belvedere of
Among the refreshing lemonlime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to Bootylicious,’
amps up McGimpsey’s trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to find his boldest collection. Imagine Petrarch in a Tweet war about where to buy a good pair of dad jeans. Imagine Yeats but with a lot fewer swans. Imagine a poet who was told long ago that nothing good ever comes out of a place like Asbestos Heights.
'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetry-wise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.' Michael Robbins
is the author of several books of poetry and short fiction. His poetry has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and the A.M. Klein Prize. He is also a musician, a fiction editor for
, and his travel writing is a regular feature of
magazine. He lives in Montréal, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.