7/7/2023 0 Comments Modern Life by Matthea Harvey![]() ![]() Raphael Rubinstein is a New York-based poet and art critic whose numerous books include But there are also weirder, more fascinating moments, too: ‘Nerves his family / Trouble his home / Dark spirits his company.'” ‘When I discovered that Mary and Lamb were on each page, a story in poems started to emerge.’ There are echoes of Sarah Josepha Hale’s famous nineteenth-century rhyme ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb,’ which tells the story of a young girl named Mary Sawyer who brings her pet lamb to school. ‘I picked up A Portrait of Charles Lamb completely randomly,’ Harvey told me. Harvey was fascinated by the process of erasures after seeing Tom Phillips’s A Humument and Jen Bervin’s Nets and decided to do one herself with the first book she could find for three dollars. “ Of Lamb is a collaborative project between poet Matthea Harvey and artist Amy Jean Porter. “Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry: Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form, as well as a fable for adults and children, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel.” ![]() Matthea Harvey, born 1973, lives and works in New York ![]() Purchase from McSweeney’s | Purchase from Amazon ![]()
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