Bad Ideas Mark Winston Not since Ken Babstock has

Not since Ken Babstock has such a poet arrived

that together offer the reader a tour of living that is a reminder that there is no singular path

This collection will leave you longing for more and

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The Pat Lowther Award (2014)

Bad Ideas Mark Winston Not since Ken Babstock hasDescription 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