<![CDATA[Sad Little Breathing Machine: Poems]]>

false <![CDATA[Sad Little Breathing Machine: Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174056434m/356527.jpg 356527 1 <div>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 none of the rides are familiar. I considered running away. I could break my neck or be catapulted into the sky. I might never be seen again. It's only poetry, I reminded myself, and climbed on board. I'm tossed and bucked and jabbed and lashed and flipped. I'm having a nearly insane amount of fun, and I don't want it to ever end." --James Tate </div> 346695 1 3 2004 Sad Little Breathing Machine: Poems total:235|5:87|4:97|3:47|2:4|1:0| 235 972 342 20 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jul 16 07:08:07 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 07:11:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 8 false false Sun Jan 04 18:08:30 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 18:12:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jul 21 16:28:10 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 16:31:26 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Fri Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Apr 11 12:30:47 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 19:06:58 -0700 2008

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BAKED ALASKA, A THEORY OF

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Unfasten the crows & the clouds come crashing down.

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