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Books by Matthea Harvey






If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
Poems and Artwork
by Matthea Harvey
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2014 by Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-684-2, ISBN: 1-55597-684-0

"A brilliant combination of poetry and visual artwork by Matthea Harvey, whose vision is "nothing short of blazingly original" (Time Out New York)She didn't even know she had a name until one day she heard the human explaining to another one, "Oh that's just the backyard mermaid." "Backyard Mermaid," she murmured, as if in prayer. On days when there's no sprinkler to comb through her curls, no rain pouring in glorious torrents from the g ..."






Modern Life(1st Edition)
Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award)
by Matthea Harvey
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2007 by Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-480-0, ISBN: 1-55597-480-5

"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, ..."






Sad Little Breathing Machine(1st Edition)
Poems
by Matthea Harvey, Eduardo Galeano
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2004 by Graywolf Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55597-396-4, ISBN: 1-55597-396-5

"Harvey, whose debut collection was praised by the New Yorker as "intensely visual, mournfully comic and syntactically inventive," offers her second stunning collectionUnits are the enginesI 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. Th ..."






Of Lamb
by Matthea Harvey, Amy Jean Porter
Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2011 by Mcsweeney's
ISBN-13: 978-1-934781-81-4, ISBN: 1-934781-81-9

"Lamb and Mary were alike. Unbalanced. Flat-footed. High-strung. This is their story like you’ve never heard it—the tale of a loopy shepherdess and a depressive farm animal. In this version of the children's nursery rhyme, Lamb and Mary fall in love. They swoon, they are smitten. Then Mary has second thoughts. Lamb is a lamb, after all, not a man. Lamb, heartbroken, turns to drinking. Lamb goes to a madhouse. Mary buries her feelings. An ..."






American Creative Writers on Class
by Leslie Jamison, Matthea Harvey, Carolyne Wright, Rebecca Keith, Dorianne Laux, Caitlin Doyle, Sonya Huber
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2012 by Big Wonderful Press, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-937806-00-2, ISBN: 1-937806-00-6

"At a time when economic inequality is on all of our minds, this collection of nonfiction and poetry from accomplished American writers focuses on intimate moments, personal relationships, and common daily experiences at the intersection of people of different economic status."






Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form(1st Edition)
by Matthea Harvey
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2002 by Alice James Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-882295-26-5, ISBN: 1-882295-26-9

"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."






Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form
by Matthea Harvey
80 Pages, Published 2016 by Alice James Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-938584-58-9, ISBN: 1-938584-58-9

"Matthea Harvey ... TRIPTYCH Necessary writing tools Quill Pounce Pot Pen Knife (writing) (drying) (correcting) I prefer the - domestic goose quill [C) the wild for obvious TEASI) [15 tooth of pig is optional Colsh be used TC) smooth the vellum  ..."






Cecil the Pet Glacier
(Hardback)
by Matthea Harvey, Giselle Potter
Library, 32 Pages, Published 2012 by Schwartz & Wade Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-96773-3, ISBN: 0-375-96773-7

"Ruby Small's embarrassingly eccentric parents take her on a vacation to Norway where she acquires an unwanted pet, a glacier named Cecil, who finds a way to melt Ruby's heart."






Cecil the Pet Glacier
by Matthea Harvey
40 Pages, Published 2012 by Schwartz & Wade
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-98768-7, ISBN: 0-375-98768-1

"" Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different."






The Little General and the Giant Snowflake
(Large Print 16pt)
by Matthea Harvey
Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-5738-8, ISBN: 1-4587-5738-2

"The Little General and the Giant Snowflake is a beautifully illustrated allegory by a leading poet, perfect for children and adults alike."






The Little General and the Giant Snowflake
by Matthea Harvey
64 Pages, Published 2009 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9825048-2-6, ISBN: 0-9825048-2-9

"Matthea Harvey. The Little Generaland The Giant Snowflake ∏inHouseBooks Copyright © 2009 Matthea Harvey, illustrations © Elizabeth Zechel All. story by Matthea Harvey drawings by Elizabeth Zechel. The Little General and The Giant  ..."






The Little General and the Giant Snowflake
by Matthea Harvey
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2007 by Soft Skull Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-933368-83-2, ISBN: 1-933368-83-7






Crowd(2nd Edition)
Issue Four, Number Two (Volume 4, Number 2)
by Elizabeth Robinson, Peter Richards, Matthea Harvey, Rebecca Curtis, Sheila Heti, Ed Park, Medbh Mcguckian, Timothy Donnelly, Stefania Heim, Matthew Rohrer
Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2004 by Crowd Magazine
ISBN-13: 978-0-9713348-2-3, ISBN: 0-9713348-2-X






When Up and Down Left Town
(Twenty Four Book Series)
by Matthea Harvey, Amy Jean Porter
Paperback, 54 Pages, Published 2017 by Cabinet Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-932698-77-0, ISBN: 1-932698-77-9

"The third volume in Cabinet's 24-Hour Book series--a collaboration between poet Matthea Harvey and artist Amy Jean Porter--imagines a world where Up and Down, connected by horizontal zippers to the Middle, suddenly unzip themselves, leaving humans to a world without contrails or dachshunds."






The Little General and the Giant Snowflake(1st Edition)
by Matthea Zec Harvey, Elizabeth Zechel
Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2009 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9820539-1-1, ISBN: 0-9820539-1-6

"In this compelling tale for children and adults alike, the poet Matthea Harvey collaborates with artist Elizabeth Zechel to create a powerful, resonant allegory for these times of violent military solutions to global problems. In this compelling tale, there is a little general who heads an army called the Realists. Every day he and his troops practice battle formations while the Dreamers, the opposing army, play strange, peaceful games. ..."






Saint Friend
(McSweeney's Poetry Series)
by Carl Adamshick, Matthea Harvey
Hardcover, 65 Pages, Published 2014 by Mcsweeney's
ISBN-13: 978-1-940450-03-2, ISBN: 1-940450-03-9

""Saint Friend" is that rare book that speaks in the voice of a generation. The voice comes from an acclaimed young poet who, after working years in obscurity, was feted with the prestigious Walt Whitman Award for his first collection. This, his second book, is a freewheeling explosion of celebrations, elegies, narratives, psychologically raw persona pieces (one in the voice of Amelia Earhart), and a handful of punchy lyric poems with a ..."






Generation 1.5
by Valerie Smith, Tom Finkelpearl, Kiran Desai, Suketu Mehta, Moukhtar Kokache, Matthea Harvey, Shiva Balaghi, Ellen Harvey, Pablo Helguera, Emily Jacir, Lee Mingwei, Shirin Neshat, Seher Shah
Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2009 by Queens Museum Of Art
ISBN-13: 978-1-929641-13-0, ISBN: 1-929641-13-3

"In an increasingly globalized cultural landscape, artists are often asked to represent their "home" country. But what if identifying home is a complex matter? The Queens Museum of Art organized the exhibition "Generation 1.5" with this sort of ambiguity of origin in mind. With a title taking its name from the Korean-American phrase describing people who moved to a new country between the ages of 12 and 18, "Generation 1.5" featured eigh ..."






The Writer's Notebook II
Craft Essays from Tin House
by Dorothy Allison, Aimee Bender, Kate Bernheimer, Jim Shepard, Susan Bell, Anna Keesey, Denis Johnson, Matthea Harvey, Nick Flynn, D. A. Powell, Steve Almond, Stephen Elliott, Charles D'ambrosio, Chris Offutt, Marie Howe, Lee Montgomery, Rick Bass
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Tin House Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-9794198-1-2, ISBN: 0-9794198-1-6

"The Writer's Notebook offers aspiring authors the most enlightening and engaging seminars and essays from some of Tin House's favorite writers. Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender, Steve Almond, Antonya Nelson and others break down specific elements of craft and share insights into the joys and pains of their own writing. The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House combines the best craft seminars in the history of the Tin House Summer Wri ..."






Cecil the Pet Glacier
by Matthea/ Pot Harvey, Giselle Potter
Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2012 by Schwartz & Wade
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-86773-6, ISBN: 0-375-86773-2

"In a starred review "Publishers Weekly" raves: "It's an avant-garde, surrealist story with a Hollywood-style tearjerker lurking within--and a surprisingly charming and affecting one at that." Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different. Ruby would love to be like everyone else-- ..."






Du kennst das auch(1st Edition)
Gedichte ; Englisch-Deutsch. Matthea Harvey. Aus dem amerikan. Engl. von Uljana Wolf / Reihe Lyrik ; Bd. 18
by Matthea Harvey, Daniela Seel, Andreas Töpfer, Uljana Wolf, Alexej Parschtschikow
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2010 by Kookbooks
ISBN-13: 978-3-937445-42-7, ISBN: 3-937445-42-0



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