Dogboy
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550223552
- Publish Date
- Apr 1998
- List Price
- $13.95 USD
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Description
David McGimpsey's Dogboy picks up and develops the adventure begun in his last collection, the critically acclaimed Lardcake. These strongly- voiced, characteristically funny poems engage and interrogate contemporary popular culture and wittily establish the province of the loser. With some fresh insight into literary history, this col- lection dares to ask: "Would Yeats approve of the cheeseburger?" And: "What if Milton's Lycidas was a once-hopeful greeting-card writer?"
About the author
David McGimpsey is the author of five collections of poetry including Li'l Bastard which was named one of the 'books of the year' by both the Quill & Quire and the National Post and was shortlisted for Canada's Governor General's Award. He is also the author of the short fiction collection Certifiable and the award-winning critical study Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. Named by the CBC as one of the 'Top Ten English language poets in Canada,' his work was also the subject of the book of essays Population Me: Essays on David McGimpsey. He lives in Montréal.
