Sitcom

By David McGimpsey

Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey's Sitcom is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself in demi-mondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of Hawaii Five-O - offering, along the way, a sincere contemplationof mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. Unembarrassed by its literary allusions or its hi-lo hybridity, Sitcom 's strategic and encompassing voice is prepared for each comedic disaster and is, somehow, always ready for next week's episode. 'McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack.' - The Washington Post '[McGimpsey] finds thehumanity hiding in the hilarity. This guy is as funny as David Sedaris, and more inventive.' - The Ottawa Citizen

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552451887
• ISBN13: 9781552451885
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.0"