Barfly

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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 in Barfly, Michael Listas third collection, are alternately aggressive, humane, LOL funny, and raw with break-your-heart vulnerability.

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Praise for Michael Lista

"Provocative and profound but eminently readable, Strike Anywhere demonstrates a critic of high order, unrestrained. It's great fun watching Lista play with matches."
--Foreword Reviews

"There aren't many Canadian books of poetry that are anticipated with quite so much excitement as Michael Lista's 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 Quire

"Bloom is all one might hope for in a book of poetry: an unencumbered, nervy fusion of imagination and form."

--Winnipeg Free Press

"Lista 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 Mail

"A brilliant, erudite new voice."
--Montreal Gazette

Author Bio

Michael Lista is an investigative journalist, essayist and poet. He has worked as a book columnist for the National Post and as the poetry editor of The Walrus. He is the author of four books: the poetry volumes Bloom and The Scarborough; Strike Anywhere, a collection of his writing about literature, television and culture; and The Human Scale: Murder, Mischief and Other Selected Mayhems, a book of longform journalism. His essays and investigative stories have appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, The Walrus, Canadaland, and Toronto Life, where he is a contributing editor. He was the 2017 Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University and the winner of the 2020 National Magazine Awards for both Investigative Reporting and Long Form Feature Writing. His story "The Sting" is being adapted by Adam Perlman, Robert Downey Jr., and Team Downey into a television series for Apple TV+.