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Funny, compelling, and with an unapologetic love of popular culture, this collection presents an elaborate lyric postcard, which explores everything from a most unprivileged seat on the cheapest bus to love and (somebody else's) fame. The poet challenges the bonds of place in a global (American) economy with personal warmth and characteristic wisecracking--daring to dream of escape not only to an impossibly meaty Southern California, but to th...

Pop culture sonnets as a midlife-crisis confessional. "Li'l Bastard" covers the three poetic Bs: baseball, beer, and "Barnaby Jones.

Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey's "Sitcom" is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. Where Timon of Athens meets Shania Twain, that's where you'll find "Sitcom." Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself in demi-mondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of "Hawai...

Asbestos Heights is the poke in the eye that misses and ends up somewhere else.

Inspired by the world of popular culture, this collection of original and often humorous poetry includes pleas to the spirit of Elvis Presley, monologues from Elly May Clampett and Darrin Stevens, mock epics about Babe Ruth in the underworld, valedictory speeches to please Oprah, lyrics occasioned by pork products, and confessions from somebody who claims to have gone out with "Beverly Hills 90210" star Shannen Doherty. A scholar of contempora...

Baseball and literature, both 'high' and 'low' have long sat side-by-side in the dugout. The Great Writer, Papa Hemingway watches the game and yearns to hit one more novelistic homerun, while the inarticulate player characterises a sharp piece of fielding as 'pure poetry'. In Dingers, essayists, fiction writers, and poets describe baseball s combinations and forms, seeking to plumb its meaning as a game and maybe metaphor for Life s deeper tru...

In these funny and twisted stories of American culture, David MdGimpsey answers questions which have long demanded answers: What does a teacher of Elvisology teach? What kind of animal is McDonald's Grimace? The sadness of life's adult rewards leads to comic relief in these short, topical, American asides.

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