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Harvey, Matthea

 
9781555976842: If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1555976840 ISBN 13 : 9781555976842
Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2014

Synopsis

A brilliant combination of poetry and visual artwork by Matthea Harvey, whose vision is "nothing short of blazingly original" (Time Out New York)

She didn't even know she had a name until one day she heard the human explaining to another one, "Oh that's just the backyard mermaid." "Backyard Mermaid," she murmured, as if in prayer. On days when there's no sprinkler to comb through her curls, no rain pouring in glorious torrents from the gutters, no dew in the grass for her to nuzzle with her nose, not even a mud puddle in the kiddie pool, she wonders how much longer she can bear this life. The front yard thud of the newspaper every morning. Singing songs to the unresponsive push mower in the garage. Wriggling under fence after fence to reach the house four down which has an aquarium in the back window. She wants to get lost in that sad glowing square of blue. Don't you?
 --from "The Backyard Mermaid"

Prose poems introduce deeply untraditional mermaids alongside mer-tool silhouettes. A text by Ray Bradbury is erased into a melancholy meeting with a Martian. The Michelin Man is possessed by William Shakespeare. Antonio Meucci's invention of the telephone is chronicled next to embroidered images of his real and imagined patents. If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? combines Matthea Harvey's award-winning poetry with her fascinating visual artwork into a true hybrid book, an amazing and beautiful work by one of our most ingenious creative artists.

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À propos de l'auteur

Matthea Harvey is the author of four books of poetry, including Sad Little Breathing Machine; Modern Life, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a New York Times Notable Book; and Of Lamb, an illustrated erasure.

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Éditeur
Graywolf Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1555976840
ISBN 13 
9781555976842
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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Personne responsable
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