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 maps his midlife crisis on a wild flight through Montréal, Chicago, Nashville, Texas, and Los Angeles. Poignant and often achingly funny, LI'L BASTARD will cement David McGimpsey's status as a beloved original. "McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack"—The Washington Post.

Author City: MONTREAL, QC CAN

David McGimpsey was born and raised in Montreal. He has a PhD in English Literature and is the author of the award- winning study Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 2000). He is the author of DINGERS: CONTEMPORARY BASEBALL WRITING (DC Books, 2008), as well as five acclaimed collections of poetry, including Lardcake (ECW Press, 1996), SITCOM (Coach House Books, 2007) and LI'L BASTARD (Coach House Books, 2011). His travel writings frequently appear in the Globe and Mail and he writes the Sandwich of the Month column for EnRoute magazine. He teaches at Concordia University.

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