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Smith, Michael V.
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Thought and thinking -- Poetry.
Idea (Philosophy) -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century
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Smith, Michael V.
Thought and thinking -- Poetry.
Idea (Philosophy) -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century
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Bad
ideas
/ Michael V. Smith.
by
Smith, Michael V.
Nightwood Editions, 2017.
Call #:
819.16 S655b
Subjects
Thought and thinking -- Poetry.
Idea (Philosophy) -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century
ISBN:
9780889713260 (pbk.)
Description:
95 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Poems.
Some copies may be permabound.
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. 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. Canadian novelist, poet and filmmaker Michael V. Smith is the author of the novel Cumberland (2002), What You Can't Have (2006) and the memoir My Body Is Yours (2015). He teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus in Kelowna"--Provided by publisher.
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Canadian poetry.
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