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ISBN13: 9780889713260
Publisher: Nightwood Ed
Published: Aug 26 2017
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.
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