If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? - Couverture souple

Harvey, Matthea

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.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1555976840
• ISBN 13: 9781555976842
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible