Bad Ideas Gillian Wigmore There is a reason

There is a reason

in that it effortlessly slides back and forth between Harvey and Robinson's life

Adam Getty renders in poems both stark and vivid the human spirit that rises above

a raging libido and the weight of the world on his shoulders

Bad Ideas Gillian Wigmore There is a reasonDescription 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