Modern Life: PoemsMatthea Harvey's Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, "The Future of Terror" and "The Terror of the Future," Harvey imagines citizens and soldiers at the end of their wits at the impending end of the world. Her prose pieces and lyrics examine the divided, halved self in poems about centaurs, ship figureheads, and a robot boy. Throughout, Harvey's signature wit and concision show us the double-sided nature of reality, of what we see and what we know. |
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73 THE INVENTION accordion Bathtub Its Forced bell jar berries birds blender blink cave woman centaur Dinna door DOUBLE-NATURED SIDES DRAWBRIDGE EMPHASIS ON MISTER EMPTY PET FACTORY eyes fall FUTURE OF TERROR gazelle girl glass Goddammit gone grass gray green gumtree ham flowers hand head horse inside INVENTION OF LOVE ketchup knew light Little Breathing Machine live LONESOME LODESTONE look maple syrup MATTHEA HARVEY metal Michelin middle MINOTAUR MISTER OR PEANUT mittens mouth never mind night nose paint park circles PARK WITH OMNISCIENCE PERSONAL SUNSHINE pinking shears Pity the Bathtub plant puddles rain RESTRICTED VISTA ROBO OR BOY Robo-Baby Robo-Boy Robo-Boy's robot Sad Little Breathing satellites scissors sheet shot sleep Sometimes split stay strawberry synapses terrarium there's things thought tiny tuba Wac-A-Mole walk wall wants watched wind window wore stilettos