Let the World Have You [Paperback]

The new collection from RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award winner Mikko Harvey.

?Mikko Harveys 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 Harveys impulse to confront the challenges of human intimacy.Let the World Have Youis 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.

Theres 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 whats here. The Boston Globe

Mikko Harveys?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 Harveys collection?Let the World Have You?are mocking, hopeful, and entertaining & Moving from the absurd image to the sharp and piercing comment, Harveys poems are always a pleasure here. The Miramichi Reader

Dazzling, heartfelt poems populated by inventive narrative and uncanny imagery.Let the World Have Youis a treasure trove of playfully serious odes to being. Mark Leidner, author ofReturning 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.