Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
2000
First Published
4.06
Average Rating
80
Number of Pages
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.
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Number of Ratings
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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.
