What You Can’t Have
In this brave and candid book, Michael V. Smith explores the experience of the modern working poor, with poems that look at sex, sexuality, and the sex trade in a straightforward manner, as well as a counterpoint of poems inspired by the American photographer William Gale Gedney.
About the Artist
Michael V. Smith’s novel, Cumberland, was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. He has won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction, four awards for film, and was awarded the Dayne Ogilvie Memorial Grant for LGBT Emerging Writers. Comedian, filmmaker, zinester, performance artist and occasional clown.
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