Bad ideas / Michael V. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Michael V., author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought and thinking--Poetry.

Thought and thinking.

Idea (Philosophy)--Poetry.

Idea (Philosophy).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

95 pages : portrait ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Gibsons, BC, Canada : Nightwood Editions, 2017.

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.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Smith, Michael V. Bad ideas.

ISBN:

9780889713260

088971326X

OCLC:

967787781

Publisher Number:

99976134203