Asbestos Heights
Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for PoetryIf you tore off the tops of canola -- yellow canola flowers -- would you jump in a tub of canola margarine just to make the…
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Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for PoetryIf you tore off the tops of canola -- yellow canola flowers -- would you jump in a tub of canola margarine just 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