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Let the World Have You
About this book
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.
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Also by Mikko Harvey
Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit
Copyright © 2022 Mikko Harvey
Published in Canada in 2022 and the USA in 2022 by House of Anansi Press Inc.
www.houseofanansi.com
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
House of Anansi Press is a Global Certified Accessible™ (GCA by Benetech) publisher. The ebook version of this book meets stringent accessibility standards and is available to students and readers with print disabilities.
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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)
| ISBN 9781487010690 (softcover) | ISBN 9781487010706 (EPUB)
Classification: LCC PS8615.A77387 L48 2022 | DDC C811/.6—dc23
Book design: Alysia Shewchuk
House of Anansi Press respectfully acknowledges that the land on which we operate is the Traditional Territory of many Nations, including the Anishinabeg,
the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee. It is also the Treaty Lands
of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee. It is also the Treaty Lands
of the Mississaugas of the Credit.



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.
Howdy, I said.
Howdy.
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,
and opened the car door and noticed
a sparrow sitting in the passenger seat.
Howdy, I said.
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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