Let the World Have You

Mikko Harvey

• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781487010690
• eBook ISBN: 9781487010706
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Poesia americana

The new collection from RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award winner Mikko Harvey.

 Mikko Harvey's new collection invites readers into a world that is and is not the world we know. In poems at once surreal, satiric, and tender, we encounter a cast of surprising non-human characters — the bear who sells herbal remedies, the politically influential lizard, the mean butterfly — yet at the core of this book is Harvey's impulse to confront the challenges of human intimacy. Let the World Have You is a vibrant report on the ways in which we are delightfully, awkwardly, heartbreakingly entangled: with each other, with the environment we inhabit, and with the psychological environments that inhabit us.

Also by Mikko Harvey

Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit

Copyright © 2022 Mikko Harvey

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Published in Canada in 2022 and the USA in 2022 by House of Anansi Press Inc.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Let the world have you / Mikko Harvey.

Names: Harvey, Mikko, author.

Description: Poems

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210375582 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210375604
| ISBN 9781487010690 (softcover) | ISBN 9781487010706 (EPUB)

Classification: LCC PS8615.A77387 L48 2022 | DDC C811/.6—dc23

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Book design: Alysia Shewchuk

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the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee. It is also the Treaty Lands
of the Mississaugas of the Credit.

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We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada.

SPRING

I opened the car door and noticed

a sparrow sitting in the passenger seat.

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Howdy, I said.

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Howdy.

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And I drove for eleven hours, through three states, attended the funeral, slept on the couch, heard the whispers, ate the brunch, folded the sheet, hugged, hugged,

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and opened the car door and noticed

a sparrow sitting in the passenger seat.

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Howdy, I said.

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Howdy.

WIND-RELATED RIPPLE IN THE WHEATFIELD

I love the shape of our apartment

as I walk through it in near-total darkness.

I love walking slowly through that darkness

with my arms out, trying not to bump

into furniture. How many apartments

have I done this in now? I loved

them all. Or possibly I just loved

h...

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