Let the World Have You

Poems

New!

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.

Contributors

Mikko Harvey

Mikko Harvey is the author of Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit (House of Anansi, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His poems appear in such places as Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Maisonneuve, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019. A graduate of Vassar College and Ohio State University, he has received the 2017 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award and the 2019 Salt Hill Philip Booth Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. He works as a writer for an immigration law firm and currently lives in upstate New York.
Chapter Title Contents Contributors Pages Year Price

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Spring – Wind-Related Ripple in the Wheatfield – Microsleep – Travelling Pharmacy – For M – Funny Business – Unearthing – The Process Refused to Cease or … 10 $2.00

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Some Scheduled Relaxation – The Frontierswomen – Declaration – Mean Butterfly – Autumn – Field Trip – Making a Quiche with You – Fly Flying into a Mirror … 11 $2.20

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A Meeting of Loyalists – Secret Channel – Sugar Water – Department of the Interior – The Best Bread in the World – Personality – An Ordinary Weakness – … 9 $1.80

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People Need Mountains – Spark – Operator – Liability -Immunity – Let the World Have You 7 $1.40