{"product_id":"bad-ideas-paperback-1","title":"Bad Ideas - Paperback","description":"\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.9 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 26, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702212235327,"sku":"9780889713260","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0dabd2dacba425d66d6db79171c3ef0f.webp?v=1765023576","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/bad-ideas-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}