a spiritual and geographical road trip with both Saul Bellow and John Berryman as back-seat drivers. In Li'l Bastard we journey with [David] McGimpsey from "the unreachable squalor of (his) home" in Montreal to Texas, television (in the 1970s detective serial Barnaby Jones), Illionois, Nashville, L.A. and back to Montreal, stopping at taco stands, local watering holes, palaces, airports, and MFA classrooms along the way. The rapaciousness of the book's affairs engenders the "bastard" of the title: The poems are unfranchised amalgams that are no less natural for their illegitimacy.from National Post: David McGimpsey sings of the world as it actually is
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