{"id":331,"date":"2020-10-04T10:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/?p=331"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:29:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:29:31","slug":"bad-smith-art202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/bad-smith-art202\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad-Smith-ART202"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bad Ideas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(<\/span>Nightwood Editions, 2017)<\/span>
\nART 202<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

Bad Ideas<\/em> 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 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.<\/p>\n

(Description Source: Harbour Publishing<\/a>)
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\nAuthor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael V. Smith<\/strong> is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing. His first novel,\u00a0Cumberland,<\/em>\u00a0was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca \/ Books in Canada First Novel Award. His short fiction has won the Western Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and been nominated for the Journey Prize. In 2007, Smith received the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and Vancouver\u2019s Community Hero of the Year Award. A native of Cornwall, Ontario, Smith currently lives in Kelowna, BC.<\/p>\n


\nUBC Library Holdings<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y2q9dt8h<\/a><\/p>\n


\nHow to Purchase this Book<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

From the Publisher – Harbour Publishing – Nightwood Editions<\/a><\/span>
\nFrom Used-book Sellers – ABE<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Antiqbook<\/a>, Biblio<\/a>, Vialibri<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Paper ISBN: 9780889713260<\/span><\/p>\n


\nUBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em> aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nHow to Submit Artwork <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO\u2019s educational mission, please email your suggestions to classroom.artwork@ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em>\u00a0began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO\u2019s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.<\/p>\n

Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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