Modern Life
2007
First Published
4.01
Average Rating
80
Number of Pages
Matthea 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.
Avg Rating
4.01
Number of Ratings
777
5 STARS
38%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
19%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
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Author
Matthea Harvey
Author · 9 books
Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry—Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form, and one children's book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.
