{"product_id":"9780889711211","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. \u003ci\u003eBad Ideas\u003c\/i\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  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBad Ideas\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132112945392,"sku":"9780889711211","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889711211_p0.jpg?v=1763847467","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889711211","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}