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Matthea Harvey (born September 3, 1973) is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor. She has published three collections, most recently, ''Modern Life'' (Graywolf Press, 2007), which earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a ''New York Times'' Notable Book.〔(The National Book Critics Circle )〕 ==Life== She was born in Germany, and grew up in England and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.〔(Poetry Foundation - Poet: Matthea Harvey - Bio )〕 She currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.〔(Interview with Matthea Harvey at Bookslut )〕 She is the sister of artist Ellen Harvey and is married to editor Rob Casper. Harvey has served as the poetry editor of ''American Letters & Commentary'' as well as a contributing editor to ''jubilat'' and ''BOMB''. She has published poems in literary magazines including ''The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slope,''〔(''Slope'' - Issue 11 - 12, July - October 2001 )〕 ''Ploughshares,''〔(''Ploughshares'' - Authors & Articles - Matthea Harvey )〕 ''The American Poetry Review.''〔(''The American Poetry Review'' - Mar/Apr 2003 Vol. 32/No. 2 )〕 Jeannine Hall Gailey described Harvey's ''Modern Life,'' as "obsessed with devastated worlds and hybrid forms of life," and the two longest poems in the collection, the “Terror of the Future” and “The Future of Terror,” as abecedarian sequences that examine "the dysfunction between civilian and military populations in a stark, futuristic environment." 〔(Poetry Foundation Interview with Matthea Harvey )〕 Although Harvey has said that she "didn’t set out to write political poems," but to explore "that idea of living in the middle of contradiction—in the grey area, between yes and no,"〔(Interview with Matthea Harvey, ''Tarpaulin Sky'', August 2006 )〕 the two poems were nonetheless acclaimed by ''The New York Times'' as "among the most arresting poems yet written about the current American political atmosphere . . . all the more surprising coming from a writer whose sensibility seems so resistant to our usual ideas about 'political poetry.' "〔(Review of ''Modern "Life'' in ''The New York Times,'' 17 February 2008 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthea Harvey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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