Barfly (trade paper)

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Were in love, but were still Millennials. / Whats wrong with our hearts is congenital.Splicing Byronic rhymes and Audens meters with twenty-first century irreverence and the profane juxtaposition of a late-stage Twitter feed, the poems inBarfly, Michael Listas third collection, are alternately aggressive, humane, LOL funny, and raw with break-your-heart vulnerability.Praise for Michael ListaProvocative and profound but eminently readable,Strike Anywheredemonstrates a critic of high order, unrestrained. Its great fun watching Lista play with matches.Foreword ReviewsThere arent many Canadian books of poetry that are anticipated with quite so much excitement as Michael Listas debut, which has been the talk of the town for some time. But the book outpaces the expectations even of those kindly disposed to it.Quill and QuireBloomis all one might hope for in a book of poetry: an unencumbered, nervy fusion of imagination and form.Winnipeg Free PressLista has here brought together potent ingredients, at once harmonious and dissonant, in a container with metal enough to withstand blasts from poems being split apart and reincarnated.Globe and MailA brilliant, erudite new voice.Montreal Gazette