Let the World Have You - by Mikko Harvey (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Dazzling, heartfelt poems populated by inventive narrative and uncanny imagery. Let the World Have You is a treasure trove of playfully serious odes to being." -- Mark Leidner, author of Returning the Sword to the Stone

"Mikko Harvey is a poet with a quirky sensibility. To me, his casual, melancholic, funny poems are like sugar water for the hummingbird." -- Henri Cole, author of Blizzard

"Mikko Harvey's Let the World Have You is a catalog of (im)possibility that makes the dead world new again ... Offering a language for our shared bewilderment in this life, this is a vulnerable work, equally brutal and gentle as it keeps turning toward the most remarkable things." -- Orion Magazine

"Strange and sly, the poems in Mikko Harvey's collection Let the World Have You are mocking, hopeful, and entertaining ... Moving from the absurd image to the sharp and piercing comment, Harvey's poems are always a pleasure here." -- The Miramichi Reader

"There's magic here, a towering and welcoming imagination, the best kind, the kind that takes your hand into strange places, knows that fear makes sense, and helps you see what's here." -- The Boston Globe