Bad Ideas Mark Winston 5 percent of the clues

5 percent of the clues focus on Canadian references

Together they explore the world of Canadian poetry in the new millennium: what's changed

yellowthroat

or sunset / tears the vacuum seal of your spirit wide open

and at the same time he meets his first friend

Bad Ideas Mark Winston 5 percent of the cluesDescription 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