Matthea Harvey is the author of five books of poetry, including If the Tabloids Are True, What Are You?, Modern Life, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and a New York Times Notable Book, and Of Lamb, an illustrated erasure. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and . · In If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?, Matthea Harvey sews together image and text to craft a poetry of fantastical hybrids: the wrenchmaid and the electrical meroutlet, radio animals, girls made of glass, a house made of people. The whimsical possibilities of these hybrids become a means of navigating negativity as Harvey explores domesticity, fantasy and violence . · Throughout If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? (Harvey’s fifth poetry collection) we are cast as voyeurs to the museum of weird concealed beneath that dress, each artifact kept at a distance with the mercurial nature of Harvey’s writing, which moves quickly and capriciously between the objects on display. And there is a wealth of them.
Born in Germany on September 3, , Matthea Harvey spent the first eight years of her life in Marnhull, England, before moving with her family to Milwaukee in Later, she earned her BA in literature at Harvard University and an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Harvey is the author of If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? Matthea Harvey Read Online Now # in Books Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 x x l,.0 #File Name: pages 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Michael Andor Brodeur reviews new poetry collections from CAConrad and Matthea Harvey. IF THE TABLOIDS ARE TRUE WHAT ARE YOU? By Matthea Harvey. Graywolf, pp., paperback, $
In If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?, Matthea Harvey sews together image and text to craft a poetry of fantastical hybrids: the wrenchmaid and the electrical meroutlet, radio animals, girls made of glass, a house made of people. The whimsical possibilities of these hybrids become a means of navigating negativity as Harvey explores domesticity, fantasy and violence through ekphrastic and pop associations. “If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?” Graywolf, “Of Lamb” by Matthea Harvey and Amy Jean Porter McSweeney's, “Modern Life” Graywolf, “Sad Little Breathing Machine” Graywolf, “Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form” Alice James Books, “No One Will See Themself in You”. In If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? Matthea Harvey packs the scissors and mercury thermometer in your suitcase and imagines the security x-rays in full color. This hybrid poetry and visual art collection encompasses prose poems with photographs for titles, embroidered models of imagined inventions, and mermaid silhouettes with tools for tails, including a Swiss Army knife and a hole-punch.
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