· Matthea Harvey poem. Matthea Harvey. SAD LITTLE BREATHING MACHINE. Engine:@. Under its glass lid, the square. of cheese is like any other element. of the imagination--cough in the tugboat, muff summering somewhere in mothballs. Have a humbug. Matthea Harvey was born in Germany, spent her childhood in England, and moved to Milwaukee with her family when she was eight years old. She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Iowa. Her collections of poems include If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? (), Of Lamb (), Modern Life (), Sad Little Breathing. · 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."Brand: Graywolf Press.
These lines are like simple machines, creating a magnetic enjambment which holds the poems together (or keeps them from flying apart). My second book, Sad Little Breathing Machine, (forthcoming from Graywolf in ) involves more complex machinations, examining the various systems we live amongst, under, and in-between. BA, Harvard College. MFA, University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Poet and author of Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, ); Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, ); Modern Life (Graywolf, ), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, a New York Times Notable Book of and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and a children's. Matthea Harvey was born in Germany, spent her childhood in England, and moved to Milwaukee with her family when she was eight years old. She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Iowa. Her collections of poems include If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? (), Of Lamb (), Modern Life (), Sad Little Breathing.
Sad Little Breathing Machine is built around six sections, each of which, Harvey says, is a “system introducing itself to humans.” There are poems powered by mysterious typographical “engines,” indicated below the titles, such as the “_@_” that accompanies “Reverberations in the Snail/World” and that, come to think of it, looks like a little snail heading straight at you. Matthea Harvey uses this one to open “Bird Transfer,” the second poem in Sad Little Breathing Machine: “Unfasten the crows the clouds/come crashing down.” I’ve only just formed the objection that I don’t want to get close enough to a crow to uncurl its claws when suddenly I’m looking for the clasp on a cloud—or rather, about to write off the experience as poetry-in-quotes. 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.".
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