Oneiric, fabulist, hilarious, surreal. No single term seems to efficiently contain Mikko Harvey’s delightful, cheeky, absurdist, inimitable debut collection. A bomb and a raindrop make small talk as they fall through the air; a visit to the phlebotomist evolves into a nightmarish party; a boy notices himself turning into a piano key. Reading Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit is like spending the day at a strange amusement park. At first the rides appear familiar―then you realize they possess the power to not only thrill and terrify, but destabilize your very notion of amusement. These poems veer sharply away from what’s normally expected of poetry, instead bringing readers to that darkened, awkward, interior space where we are free to be most ourselves.

Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit

Literature & Fiction

Harvey, Mikko

Humor & Satire

House of Anansi Press

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, and many more—yet at the core of this book is Harvey's impulse to confront the complications 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.\nThe number 
of hours 
we have 
together is 
actually not 
so large. 
Please linger 
near the 
door uncomfortably 
instead of 
just leaving. 
Please forget 
your scarf 
in my 
life and 
come back 
later for 
it.

Let the World Have You

Poetry

Idaho Falls

Bauer, Jake

SurVision Books

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