false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190340858m/356529.jpg 356529 1 <div><div>Matthea Harvey&#8217;s <i>Modern Life</i> introduces a new voice that tries to exist in the gray area between good and evil, love and hate. In the central sequences, &#8220;The Future of Terror&#8221; and &#8220;The Terror of the Future,&#8221; 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&#8217;s signature wit and concision show us the double-sided nature of reality, of what we see and what we know.</div></div> 346697 2 10 2007 Modern Life: Poems total:232|5:91|4:80|3:45|2:14|1:2| 232 940 385 36 3 2 false false Tue Oct 16 11:56:52 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 04 08:19:26 -0700 2008
One more pro: a few of the poems at the end made me envision rather quirkily charming Amelie-esque scenes.

One more con: What kind of a poem is this?

YOU HAVE MY EYES

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“The ham flowers have veins and are rimmed in rind, a little meat sunset.”
(“Implications for Modern Life”)

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✩St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of 2007✩

“Nothing short of blazingly original.”—TIMEOUT NEW YORK

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