‘Social control of his beginnings’
“We walk into his past of Rubik’s cubes, Pope John Paul, mullets, rotary phones, and record players and see a young man watching others emanating something he identifies with, but cannot put his finger on it, nor act on his desires at first.” Catherine McNeil reviews Soundtrack: A Lyric Memoir, by Michael V. Smith (Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2025) $24.95 / 9781771669498