Modern Life Poems

Matthea Harvey'sModern Lifeintroduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, Â"The Future of TerrorÂ" and Â"The Terror of the Future,Â" 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, Harvey's signature wit and concision show us the double-sided nature of reality, of what we see and what we know.

Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. She is a contributing editor at jubilat and Bomb, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Brooklyn.