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9781552453094 English 155245309X "If you tore off the tops of canola -- yellow canola flowers -- would you jump 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 note-books on all things 'poetic' and 'poetical.' Birds Flowers History Sad leaders The word 'aubade' They're all here, in a serial, State Fair-bound collection of lyrics set in the working-class belvedere of "Asbestos Heights."Among the refreshing lemon-lime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to 'Bootylicious, ' "Asbestos Heights" amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to ?nd 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 RobbinsDavid McGimpsey 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 "Joyland," and his travel writing is a regular feature of "enRoute" magazine. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University., "If you tore off the tops of canola yellow canola flowers would you jump 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 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 "Asbestos Heights."Among the refreshing lemonlime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to Bootylicious, "Asbestos Heights" amps up McGimpsey s trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to ?nd 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 RobbinsDavid McGimpsey 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 "Joyland," and his travel writing is a regular feature of "enRoute" magazine. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.", Implored to be "classy" and "real" for once, David McGimpsey looks to all things "poetic," like birds and history, and instead finds true value and meaning in diet lime soda and the words to "Bootylicious." Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric with pop-culture verve to find a bold Late Night Petrarchan spirit. David McGimpsey is the author of several books of poetry and short fiction. He is also a musician, a fiction editor for Joyland, and his travel writing is a regular feature of enRoute magazine. He teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University., Implored to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, McGimpsey looks to all things 'poetic,' like birds and history, and instead finds true value and meaning in diet lime soda and the words to 'Bootylicious.' Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric with pop-culture verve to find a bold Late Night Petrarchan spirit. 'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetrywise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.' - Michael Robbins, Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry "If you tore off the tops of canola yellow canola flowers would you jump 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 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 "Asbestos Heights."Among the refreshing lemonlime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to Bootylicious, "Asbestos Heights" amps up McGimpsey s trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to ?nd 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 RobbinsDavid McGimpsey 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 "Joyland," and his travel writing is a regular feature of "enRoute" magazine. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University."
9781552453094 English 155245309X "If you tore off the tops of canola -- yellow canola flowers -- would you jump 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 note-books on all things 'poetic' and 'poetical.' Birds Flowers History Sad leaders The word 'aubade' They're all here, in a serial, State Fair-bound collection of lyrics set in the working-class belvedere of "Asbestos Heights."Among the refreshing lemon-lime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to 'Bootylicious, ' "Asbestos Heights" amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to ?nd 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 RobbinsDavid McGimpsey 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 "Joyland," and his travel writing is a regular feature of "enRoute" magazine. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University., "If you tore off the tops of canola yellow canola flowers would you jump 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 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 "Asbestos Heights."Among the refreshing lemonlime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to Bootylicious, "Asbestos Heights" amps up McGimpsey s trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to ?nd 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 RobbinsDavid McGimpsey 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 "Joyland," and his travel writing is a regular feature of "enRoute" magazine. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.", Implored to be "classy" and "real" for once, David McGimpsey looks to all things "poetic," like birds and history, and instead finds true value and meaning in diet lime soda and the words to "Bootylicious." Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric with pop-culture verve to find a bold Late Night Petrarchan spirit. David McGimpsey is the author of several books of poetry and short fiction. He is also a musician, a fiction editor for Joyland, and his travel writing is a regular feature of enRoute magazine. He teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University., Implored to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, McGimpsey looks to all things 'poetic,' like birds and history, and instead finds true value and meaning in diet lime soda and the words to 'Bootylicious.' Asbestos Heights amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric with pop-culture verve to find a bold Late Night Petrarchan spirit. 'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetrywise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.' - Michael Robbins, Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry "If you tore off the tops of canola yellow canola flowers would you jump 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 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 "Asbestos Heights."Among the refreshing lemonlime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to Bootylicious, "Asbestos Heights" amps up McGimpsey s trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop savoir faire to ?nd 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 RobbinsDavid McGimpsey 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 "Joyland," and his travel writing is a regular feature of "enRoute" magazine. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University."