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Sitcom
David Mcgimpsey
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Description for Sitcom
Paperback. Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, this book is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. A collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets, it begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself through antic turns and lyric flips to demimondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of "Hawaii Five-O". Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
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 Hawaii Five-O -- offering, along the way, a sincere contemplation of mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. In between, you'll find Auden, Arthur Carlson, oper, Girls Gone Wild and ... Read more
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 Hawaii Five-O -- offering, along the way, a sincere contemplation of mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. In between, you'll find Auden, Arthur Carlson, oper, Girls Gone Wild and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552451885
SKU
V9781552451885
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About David Mcgimpsey
David McGimpsey is a poet and author born and raised in Montreal. He has a PhD in English literature and is the author of the award-winning study Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. His travel writings frequently appear in the Globe and Mail and he writes the "Sandwich of the Month" column for EnRoute magazine. He teaches at Concordia ... Read more
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