{"product_id":"bad-ideas-paperback-3","title":"Bad Ideas - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael V. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350557311225,"sku":"9780889713260","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/THJuZm1nT1NZRE1jN2s1MUtFazIrQT09_12fd0528-c9c5-40d6-9a71-eac27a94373b.webp?v=1769786853","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bad-ideas-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}