Sad Little Breathing Machine Poems

Name: Sad Little Breathing Machine Poems
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ISBN: 9781555973964

ISBN-10: 1555973965

ISBN-13: 9781555973964

Edition: 2004

Authors: Matthea Harvey

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Harvey, whose debut collection was praised by the New Yorker as "intensely visual, mournfully comic and syntactically inventive," offers her second stunning collection Units are the engines I understand best. One betrayal, two. Merrily, merrily, merrily. -from "Introduction to the World" In Sad Little Breathing Machine, Matthea Harvey explores the strange and intricate mechanics of human systems-of the body, of thought, of language itself. These are the engines, like poetry, that propel both our comprehension and misunderstanding. "If you're lucky," Harvey writes, "after a number of / revolutions, you'll / feel something catch." "I pictured myself arriving at an amusement park, only…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Introduction to the World


Bird Transfer


Life-Size Is What We Are (A New History of Photography)


To Zanzibar by Motorcar


Baked Alaska, a Theory Of


No More Frisson Please


Toe the Line with Me


If You Like Sugar I'll Like Sugar Too


Save the Originals


Sad Little Breathing Machine


Introduction to Eden


Equation with Flowers


Poem Including the Seven Deadly Sins


The Crowds Cheered As Gloom Galloped Away


Trouble in the Dyad


This Is Not a Glass Door


Our Square of Lawn


First Person Fabulous


Shiver & You Have Weather


Introduction to Circumference


Poem Including the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World


Diagram of Pretty Please


O the Zoetrope & the Periscope Should Be Friends


Sergio Valente, Sergio Valente, How You Look Tells the World How You Feel


Ideas Go Only So Far


Not So Much Miniature As Far Away


The Unconsciousness of Feelings


Snowglobe Hypothesis


Introduction to Addiction


Introduction to a Diction


Grand Narrative with Chandelier


Machine for Jean Rhys


Introduction to the Swanhouse


You're Miss Reading


Definition of Weather


The Crying Fields


Address to an Absent Flea


Introduction to Narrative


Once upon a Time: A Genre Fable


Meat Ravioli vs. Spaghetti Bolognese


Sentenced: The Subject Objects to Its Long-Distance Relationship with the Object


Reverberations in the Snail / World


Color by Number


The Difference Between the Need for Consistency & the State of Expectation


The Transparent Heir Apparent


Can We See


Introduction to the End


Introduction to Disease