Sad Little Breathing Machine Poems |
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| Author:
| Harvey, Matthea |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55597-396-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2004 |
| Publisher: | Graywolf Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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Harvey, whose debut collection was praised by theNew Yorker as "intensely visual, mournfully comic and syntactically inventive," offers her second stunning collection
Units are the engines I understand best.
One betrayal, two. Merrily, merrily, merrily. -from "Introduction to the World"
InSad Little Breathing Machine, Matthea Harvey explores the strange and intricate mechanics of human...
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Harvey, whose debut collection was praised by theNew Yorker
as "intensely visual, mournfully comic and syntactically
inventive," offers her second stunning collection
Units are the engines
I understand best.
One betrayal, two.
Merrily, merrily, merrily.
-from "Introduction to the World"
InSad Little Breathing Machine, Matthea Harvey explores the strange and intricate mechanics of human systems-of the body, of thought, of language itself. These are the engines, like poetry, that propel both our comprehension and misunderstanding. "If you're lucky," Harvey writes, "after a number of / revolutions, you'll / feel something catch."
"I pictured myself arriving at an amusement park, only none of the rides are familiar. I considered running away. I could break my neck or be catapulted into the sky. I might never be seen again. It's only poetry, I reminded myself, and climbed on board. I'm tossed and bucked and jabbed and lashed and flipped. I'm having a nearly insane amount of fun, and I don't want it to ever end." --James Tate