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What You Can't Have is a candid exploration of sex, sexuality, and sexualities. Michael V. Smith explores desire, looking at the difference between wants and needs in this collection of poems about longing to belong and acceptance. Some of the poems are concerned with adolescent awareness of sexuality and self, while others are concerned with gender transgression. All examine the limits of our cultural norms in a collection that is carnal, corporeally driven, and relishes in the body. Smith uses language that is plain-spoken, artful and yet undecorated.

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What You Can't Have is a candid exploration of sex, sexuality, and sexualities. Michael V. Smith explores desire, looking at the difference between wants and needs in this collection of poems about longing to belong and acceptance. Some of the poems are concerned with adolescent awareness of sexuality and self, while others are concerned with gender transgression. All examine the limits of our cultural norms in a collection that is carnal, corporeally driven, and relishes in the body. Smith uses language that is plain-spoken, artful and yet undecorated.
Autorenporträt
Michael V. Smith's novel, Cumberland (Cormorant Books), was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. His poetry has appeared in Arc, Descant, Grain, Quarry, and The Malahat Review, among others. What You Can't Have is his first book of poetry. He has won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction, four awards for film, a Community Heroes Award for his work in the arts in Vancouver, and was nominated for the Journey Prize. Also a comedian, filmmaker, zinester, performance artist and occasional clown, Smith is an MFA grad from UBC's Creative Writing program. He has been named one of Vancouver's 25 most influential queer citizens (Vancouver Magazine) and one of Vancouver's Most Dangerous People (Loop).