Glum was the woman in the ostrich feather hat. Under carpets, that’s how we got our bodies Check out book reviews and get the best price for Modern Life by Matthea Harvey (9781555974800) Home. I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Harvey currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Read his review of If The Tabloids Are True What Are You? in the LA Times. The river’s a baby, it’s a toddler, it’s grown. Like a sullen snail, and hand in hand, we’ll watchĪs the water creeps up an inch, then two. The measuring tape curled in the desk drawer Unwedge the ruler you use to prop up your His favorite poem in her newest collection, “When the Water Is at Our Ankles,” begins: “If you care about modern American poetry, you should care about Matthea Harvey,” says Daniel Handler. She has also worked as the poetry editor of American Letters & Commentary, and is a contributing editor to jubilat and BOMB. For more information on Lit House events visit poems have been included in literary magazines such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, and others. The Literary House is located at 407 Washington Avenue. Has described her own work as an exploration “in the middle of contradiction-in the More recently, reviewing If the Tabloids are True What Are You?, Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler wrote in The Los Angeles Times, “if you care about modern American poetry, you care about Matthea Harvey.” Harvey We can perceive, darkly, an even greater darkness.” In the nuts and bolts of writing.” Her poetry, he said, “becomes a glass through which This sly, mannered quality is coupled withĪn almost Victorian sense of whimsy … and balanced by a true technician’s interest Who has Stevie Smith’s knack for writing throwaway lines that in the end seem less Writing about Modern Life for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, poetry columnist David Orr opined that “at her best, Harvey is a soft-touch poet She also published two children’s books: The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (Tin House, 2009), and Cecil the Pet Glacier (Schwartz & Wade, 2013). Her other volumes of poetry include Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000), Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004), Of Lamb (McSweeney’s 2011), and If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? (Graywolf, 2014).

She is the winner of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts PoetryĪward, one of the most lucrative poetry prizes in the world, which she earned for from Harvard University and her M.F.A in creative writing from Series “The Verbal and the Visual.” This event begins at 4:30 p.m. House at Washington College on Tuesday, November 3 as the final speaker in the fall CHESTERTOWN, MD-Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey visits the Rose O’Neill Literary