{"product_id":"bad-ideas-michael-v-smith-9780889713260","title":"Bad Ideas","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobody 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. \u003cem\u003eBad Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBad Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael V. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 088971326X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889713260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nightwood Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Michael V. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926776611071,"sku":"9780889713260","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_da623e20-0ab3-45b1-a51a-3935310d5ad8.jpg?v=1681084945","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bad-ideas-michael-v-smith-9780889713260","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}