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Title Statement | Bad ideas / Michael V. Smith. |
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Author | Smith, Michael V |
Publication | Gibsons, BC: Nightwood Editions,2017. |
Extent of Item | 95 pages |
ISBN | 088971326X (pbk.) 9780889713260 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3149870 |
General Notes | Poems. |
Summary | "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"--Provided by publisher. |
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By Topic | Thought and thinking--Poetry |
Idea (Philosophy)--Poetry |