{"product_id":"asbestos-heights","title":"Asbestos Heights","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf\u003cem\u003e you tore off the tops of canola --\u003cbr\u003eyellow canola flowers -- would you\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ejump in a tub of canola margarine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ejust to make the best of despair?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eImplored by concerned readers to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, David McGimpsey has composed a sequence of canonical note­books 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 \u003cem\u003eAsbestos Heights\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the refreshing lemon-­lime sodas of the world and the rousing lyrics to 'Bootylicious,' \u003cem\u003eAsbestos Heights\u003c\/em\u003e amps up McGimpsey's trademark sideswiping of formal rhetoric and prosody with pop \u003cem\u003esavoir faire\u003c\/em\u003e to ï¬*nd his boldest collection. Imagine Petrarch in a Tweet war about where to buy a good pair of dad jeans. Imagine Yeats but with a lot fewer swans. Imagine a poet who was told long ago that nothing good ever comes out of a place like Asbestos Heights.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e'David McGimpsey is unfuckwithable, poetry­wise, and I'll stand on John Ashbery's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.'\u003cbr\u003e-- Michael Robbins\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e'McGimpsey’s book is a masterful display of formal unity ... The work addresses the devalued currency of the overeducated, but underemployed, poet of art-culture, juxtaposing this experience with the esteemed currency of the undereducated, but overemployed, star of pop-culture ... It is also a book of significant pathos and submerged emotion.'\u003cbr\u003e– QWF A.M. Klein Poetry Prize jury citation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46157767737521,"sku":"9781552453094","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46157767770289,"sku":"9458c02d-4dc3-31cd-a3dc-97518d420406","price":9.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f641efb8-591c-4c21-a1a9-325f3dfc7de3.jpg?v=1763406866","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/asbestos-heights","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}