Bad Ideas

Michael V. Smith

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Nightwood Editions
04 December 2017

Poetry

Nobody knows bad ideas quite like Michael V. Smith. In his new collection of poetry, he speaks to an intangibility of sense, or a sense beyond the rational. Bad Ideas explores the inevitability of loss and triumph with characteristic irony and tenderness. Through this dazzling collection of a remembered life, hung out to ogle like laundry on the line, Smith recalls a mother who discovers a sex tape, a man who dreams of birthing his own son and a woman who blends her baby girls into milkshakes.

Bad Ideas is a testament to how an altered perspective effects change, how stories can be recast. The collection forms itself into an exercise in which optimism is a practiced art recaptured in dreams and prayers and combined to acknowledge the unknowable, the contradictory, the ungraspable: ""An evening is composed / in a hundred unchoreographed / dramas""; ""I pull a Clark Kent / transform, dressed as a monk

/ in burgundy and gold robes. I think

/ this will protect me, but it doesn't""; ""Dear Hatred, sweet / Hatred, do you not move our enemies / to know us better?"" Hyperbolic and sincere, this collection brawls with the unquantifiable themes of family, loneliness and love.

By: Michael V. Smith
Imprint: Nightwood Editions
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 130g
ISBN: 9780889713260
ISBN 10: 088971326X
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 04 December 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael V. Smith is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, performance artist and occasional clown. He is the author of several books including What You Can't Have (Signature Editions, 2006), which was short-listed for the ReLit Award, and My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015), which was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is also the winner of the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers and was nominated for the Journey Prize. Smith currently teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus in Kelowna. Bad Ideas is his latest collection of poetry.

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Bad Ideas

Michael V. Smith

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