Bad Ideas Mark Winston Low Water Slack takes the

Low Water Slack takes the reader into a vibrant world populated with such characters as a ghost of a nineteeth-century salmon canner and an 800-pound white sturgeon

The Pat Lowther Award (2014)

full of guts and verve

PRISM International

Not since Ken Babstock has such a poet arrived

Bad Ideas Mark Winston Low Water Slack takes theDescription 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