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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. ...more

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	Modern Life 4.01 avg rating — 777 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form 4.06 avg rating — 688 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sad Little Breathing Machine 4.10 avg rating — 636 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cecil the Pet Glacier by Matthea Harvey (欧宝娱乐 Author), Giselle Potter (Illustrations) 3.81 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? 4.18 avg rating — 356 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Lamb by Matthea Harvey (欧宝娱乐 Author), Matthea Harvey (欧宝娱乐 Author) 4.13 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little General and the Giant Snowflake by Matthea Harvey (欧宝娱乐 Author), Elizabeth Zechel 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Up and Down Left Town (Twenty Four Book Series, 3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Du kennst das auch it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If there is no fog on the day you come home I will build a bonfire
So the smoke will make the cedars look the way you like them”
― Matthea Harvey

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“Sometimes she feels like a third gender-
preferring primary colors to pastels, the radio to singing. At least she's all mermaid: never gets tired of swimming, hates the thought of socks. -from "The Straight Forward Mermaid”
― Matthea Harvey

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“Don鈥檛 fret, dreamy spinning ones
with water falling from your faces.
It鈥檚 us you鈥檙e waiting for and we鈥檙e coming.”
― Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?

tags: aliens, dreamers, poem, poetry

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) 欧宝娱乐 honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg 鈥淕od has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.鈥� 鈥擜nne Sexton On Clouds 鈥� 鈥溾€hat primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about鈥︹€� 鈥擸evgeny Zamyatin 鈥淚f the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn鈥檛 wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.鈥� 鈥擠onald Hall 鈥淧oetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation鈥檚 tears in shoulder blades.鈥� 鈥擝oris Pasternak 鈥淲anted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.鈥� 鈥擟harles Simic 鈥淟anguage is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.鈥� 鈥擥ustave Flaubert 鈥淧oetry is not an expression of the party line. It鈥檚 that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that鈥檚 what the poet does.鈥� 鈥擜llen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women鈥檚 National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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