Sarah's review
Modern Life: Poems by Matthea Harvey (Goodreads author!)
Sarah's review
rating:
recommended for: fans of ponies, prose poem enthusiasts
status: Read in November, 2007
rating:
recommended for: fans of ponies, prose poem enthusiasts
status: Read in November, 2007
Well, this is a slick little book. A book-sized book. No, I don't know what I mean by either of those statements, but I have a hunch that they're the reason I'm giving it four stars instead of five. Harvey reinvents the abecedarian form in two series of poems: "The Future of Terror" and "Terror of the Future," both of which use the dictionary words between "future" and "terror" as guideposts. Half of me finds this strategy ingenious, but the other half finds it a little pat, more eloquent on the project level than the individual poem level. All of that said, it's still a relentlessly exciting collection, full of virtuoso prose poems and brilliant critique.
