Bad Ideas Gillian Wigmore Jay Ruzesky creates and re-creates

Jay Ruzesky creates and re-creates Eden -- its passions

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

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

interview published in The Danforth Review

it is a comic romp on par with Mordecai Richler's Cocksure

Bad Ideas Gillian Wigmore Jay Ruzesky creates and re-createsDescription 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