{"id":14785,"date":"2020-07-20T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=14785"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T02:59:28","slug":"you-dont-have-to-go-to-mars-for-love-by-yona-harvey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/you-dont-have-to-go-to-mars-for-love-by-yona-harvey\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love by Yona Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 16.95
ISBN-13: 978-1-945588-56-3<\/p>\n

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You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love<\/em><\/h1>\n

Yona Harvey<\/h2>\n

Winner of the Believer Book Award in Poetry<\/a><\/h5>\n
Reviewed in Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Featured in Poets & Writers<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Featured in Ms.<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
Reviewed in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a><\/h5>\n
Reviewed in The Pittsburgh Book Review<\/a><\/h5>\n

The poems of award-winning poet Yona Harvey\u2019s much anticipated You Don\u2019t Have to Go to Mars for Love <\/em>follow an unnamed protagonist on her multidimensional, Afro-futuristic journey. Her story stretches the boundaries normally constraining a black, female body like hers. Half-superhero, half-secret-identity, she encounters side-slipping, speculative realities testing her in poems that appear like the panels of a comic book. Music directs readers through large and small emotional arcs, constantly re-troubled by lyric experimentation. Harvey layers her poems with a chorus of women\u2019s voices. Her artful use of refrain emphasizes the protagonist\u2019s meaning-making and doubling back: \u201cWho am I to say? The eye is often mistaken. Or is it the mind? Always eager to interpret.\u201d Our hero gets captured, escapes, scuba dives, and goes interstellar, and she emerges on the other end of her journey renewed, invoking the gods… \u201cTaunt the sharks & when the glaciers get to melting, \/ all God\u2019s Rivers we shall haunt.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“I was seduced by the independence of his mind”
<\/strong>after Bahiana by Ma\u00eetre Parfumeur et Gantier<\/em><\/p>\n

You never wear cologne. You give
& you give & you give & you give.
& they take from you.That\u2019s their business.
You are mine. Or so you say
with a wink. I want to tell that stupid girl
to shut the hell up about the sonnet.
But you shrug. Just a girl, you say.
You once saw seabirds in her
skirt, a blue, irregular outline,
a neglected island. & anyway, cologne
is for boys who need a hint. Just don\u2019t
tell their young lovers too soon. Give them
the feathered headdresses & coconuts they imagine,
the little trees that bear chocolate fruit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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