{"product_id":"9781556593956","title":"Upgraded to Serious","description":"Author: Heather McHugh\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781556593956\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Sep 2012\u003cbr\u003ePages: 104 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted:  part safety net, part trampoline.\"-\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fast-paced, verbally dexterous book-honored as a \"Book of the Year\" by \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e-\"boils up and boils over\" as it utilizes medical terminology and iconography to work through loss and detachment. Heather McHugh's startling rhymes and rhythms, coupled with her sarcastic self-reflection and infectious laughter, serve as both palliative and prophylactic in the face of human sufferings and ignorance. Being \"upgraded to serious\" from critical condition is a nod to the healing powers of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Not to Be Dwelled On\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelf-interest cropped up even there,\u003cbr\u003ethe day I hoisted three instead\u003cbr\u003eof the ceremonially called-for two\u003cbr\u003espadefuls of loam\u003cbr\u003eonto the coffin of my friend.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy shovel more than anybody else?\u003cbr\u003eWhat did I think I'd prove? More love\u003cbr\u003e(mud in her eye)? More will to work?\u003cbr\u003e(her father what, a shirker?) Christ,\u003cbr\u003ewhat wouldn't anybody give\u003cbr\u003eto get that gesture back?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe cannot die again; and I\u003cbr\u003edo nothing but re-live.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeather McHugh\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a dozen books of poetry and translation. She teaches at the University of Washington and Warren Wilson College and lives in Seattle, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920582492318,"sku":"ING-9781556593956","price":30.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781556593956.jpg?v=1782824860","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781556593956","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}