Modern Life: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) - Softcover

Harvey, Matthea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555974805 ISBN 13: 9781555974800

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 2007

Synopsis

Matthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, "The Future of Terror" and "The Terror of the Future," Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world. Her prose pieces and lyrics examine the divided, halved self in poems about centaurs, ship figureheads, and a robot boy. Throughout, Harvey's signature wit and concision show us the double-sided nature of reality, of what we see and what we know.

About this title

About the Author:

Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. She is a contributing editor at jubilat and Bomb, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

There was one shot left in my rifle.
I polished my plimsolls.
I wrapped myself in a quilt.
So this is how you live in the present.
--from "The Future of Terror"

About this edition

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1555974805
• ISBN 13: 9781555974800
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80