![]() ![]() Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of Skin, Inc. ![]() She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Iowa. The whole aggressive world is this book's only enemy, and no one tricks absurdity into form, reality into abstraction, injustice into stylized verdict, and contemporary popular culture into a useful, heroic trap of surreal-her-wholeness like Carmen Giménez Smith." Matthea Harvey was born in Germany, spent her childhood in England, and moved to Milwaukee with her family when she was eight years old. "The human body has only five senses but The City She Was reroutes the architecture of experience so effectively that the reader is awarded a new unnamed sense, a soft power, one that reprioritizes our outdated reality with the gathering infrastructure of the geography of language. Matthea Harvey, author of Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form The City She Was presents a world that brings 'the horizon line into your lexicon' and a poet's muse ('The Endangered You') is lent to a friend and returned 'a little more frayed.' Giménez Smith muddles and enchants with her many masks, leaving the ground a little less stable under our feet." "When you open this book, expect serious role-playing and syntactic tap dancing. ![]() ![]() 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. Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University Matthea Harveys Modern Life introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. ![]()
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