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A CBC Books Best Poetry Book of 2024 • A CBC Books Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 • A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title

We’re in love, but we’re still Millennials. / What’s wrong with our hearts is congenital. 

In Barfly, the poet comes back to haunt himself, and us. In this incomparable third collection, his first in a decade, Michael Lista returns to reinvent poetry with humour, pugnacity, and a deeply singular voice. Splicing Byronic rhymes and Auden’s meters with the twenty-first century irreverence of a late-stage Twitter feed, the poems in Barfly are alternatingly aggressive, sweet, deadly, and raw with a break-your-heart vulnerability.

Barfly

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    A Paperback by Michael Lista

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      Publisher Biblioasis
      Published 6 April 2024
      ISBN-13 9781771966115
      978-1771966115
      ISBN-10 1771966114

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A CBC Books Best Poetry Book of 2024 • A CBC Books Poetry Collection to Watch for in Spring 2024 • A Toronto Star Most Anticipated Spring Title

      We’re in love, but we’re still Millennials. / What’s wrong with our hearts is congenital. 

      In Barfly, the poet comes back to haunt himself, and us. In this incomparable third collection, his first in a decade, Michael Lista returns to reinvent poetry with humour, pugnacity, and a deeply singular voice. Splicing Byronic rhymes and Auden’s meters with the twenty-first century irreverence of a late-stage Twitter feed, the poems in Barfly are alternatingly aggressive, sweet, deadly, and raw with a break-your-heart vulnerability.

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