Sad Little Breathing Machine - Couverture souple

Harvey, Matthea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555973965 ISBN 13 : 9781555973964

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2004

Synopsis

Harvey, whose debut collection was praised by the New 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"

In Sad 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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthea Harvey is the author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. She is the poetry editor of American Letters & Commentary and lives in Brooklyn.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555973965
• ISBN 13: 9781555973964
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 79
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible