Sad Little Breathing Machine

Sad Little Breathing Machine PDF Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555973964
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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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."

Sad Little Breathing Machine

Sad Little Breathing Machine PDF Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555973964
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Book Description
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."

Modern Life

Modern Life PDF Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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The verse and prose poems of this third collection by Harvey shows her signature wit (the factory puffs its own set of clouds), darkened by an ominous sense of fearfulness in a post-9/11 world, which the poems' seeming levity tries to combat. The backbone of the collection is a pair of sequences titled The Future of Terror and Terror of the Future, that explore those two increasingly loaded words using a clever alphabetical system with haunting results: We were just a gumdrop on the grid. Prose poems bookending the sequences present a fable about a lonely robot (When Robo-Boy feels babyish, he has the option of really reverting); a study of appetite (Ma gave Dinna' Pig his name so that no-one would forget where that pig was headed); an explanation of how the impossibility of mind-reading led to love (Even when they press their ears or mouths or noses together, the skull wall is still in the way); and an unlikely dinner ritual (rip the silhouette from the sky and drag it inside). A few short, lineated poems punctuate the blocks of prose: World, I'm no one/ to complain about you.

Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form

Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form PDF Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1938584589
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Comic, elegaic, and always formally intricate, using political allegory and painterly landscape, philosophic story and dramatic monologue, these poems describe a moment when something marvelous and unforeseen alters the course of a single day, a year, or an entire life.

The Little General and the Giant Snowflake

The Little General and the Giant Snowflake PDF Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 0982053916
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
An inflexible little general discovers a giant snowflake hovering over him one day, and it forces him to recognize the need for imagination in his life.

Threshold: the breath

Threshold: the breath PDF Author: suzi hall
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445217813
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Book Description
An Hons. thesis in creative writing(poetry). It got a First. Go Figure.

Please Excuse This Poem

Please Excuse This Poem PDF Author: Brett Fletcher Lauer
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 0670014796
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Book Description
Young readers find their poetic peers as poets in their 20s and 30s present a poetry anthology dedicated to what it means to be a teenager and young adult in today's world. 240pp.

Cecil the Pet Glacier

Cecil the Pet Glacier PDF Author: Matthea Harvey
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0375987681
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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In a starred review Publishers Weekly raves: "It’s an avant-garde, surrealist story with a Hollywood-style tearjerker lurking within—and a surprisingly charming and affecting one at that." Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different. Ruby would love to be like everyone else—not easy when you have a tiara-wearing mother and a father who spends his time trimming outrageous topiary. She'd also like to get a nice normal pet, maybe a dog. Then, on a family vacation to Norway, she finds herself adopted by a small, affectionate glacier. How Cecil, as the ice pet is named, proves himself to Ruby—risking his own meltdown—is a story sure to thrill and delight young readers.

Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything

Not Like I'm Jealous or Anything PDF Author: Marissa Walsh
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0307433595
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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Book Description
We’ve all been there. We’ve all felt that pang. It’s hard to stop the “green-eyed monster” once it rears its ugly head. We asked 13 writers to share their visions of jealousy and this collection of short stories, essays, and one poem was their response.

Raised by Wolves

Raised by Wolves PDF Author: Graywolf Press
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644452677
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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BAX 2015

BAX 2015 PDF Author: Seth Abramson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819576093
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Book Description
BAX 2015 is the second volume of an annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year's volume, guest edited by Douglas Kearney, features seventy-five works by some of the most exciting American poets and writers today, including established authors—like Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Cathy Park Hong, Bhanu Kapil, Aaron Kunin, Joyelle McSweeney, and Fred Moten—as well as emerging voices. Best American Experimental Writing is also an important literary anthology for classroom settings, as individual selections are intended to provoke lively conversation and debate. The series coeditors are Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani. Hardcover is un-jacketed.