David McGimpsey
David McGimpsey (born and raised in Montreal) is a Canadian comedic author. He is the author of the poetry collections: Hamburger Valley, California, Dogboy, Lardcake (ECW Press) and Sitcom (Coach House) as well as the critical study, Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture (Indiana University Press). His book of short stories, Certifiable, was published with Insomniac Press (2004). His travel writings frequently appear in The Globe and Mail[citation needed] and he writes the "Sandwich of the Month" column for EnRoute magazine.[citation needed]
The most recent book of essays published about McGimpsey’s work is Population Me: Essays on David McGimpsey. The collected essays (by acclaimed poets and scholars)[citation needed] "examine McGimpsey’s various positions on literary history, class, nationalism, humor, love, and aesthetics, all of which are often mutually imbricated in McGimpsey’s work.”
McGimpsey teaches creative writing at Concordia University[citation needed] and is a member of the rock band Puggy Hammer.[citation needed]
External links
- David McGimpsey at Coach House Books: http://www.chbooks.com/biographies/david-mcgimpsey
- Four Poems: http://jacketmagazine.com/34/c-mcgimpsey.shtml
- Broken Pencil Bio: http://www.brokenpencil.com/artist/artist.php?i=41[]
- Population Me: essays on David McGimpsey: http://www.palimpsestpress.ca/population-essays-david-mcgimpsey-p-320.html
- YouTube, McGimpsey reading at Concordia with other acclaimed poet/professors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so4i7ny0uXM&feature=related
- 1997 PhD Thesis at Dalhousie University: Called Shots: Baseball as Modern American Fiction: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq24753.pdf
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