Li'l Bastard
"McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack."—The Washington Post
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...
"McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack."—The Washington Post
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...