| Upkeep Contributor(s): London, Sara (Author) |
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ISBN: 194558839X ISBN-13: 9781945588396 Publisher: Four Way Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2019004733 |
| Series: Stahlecker Selections |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.6" (0.35 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The poems in Sara London's Upkeep offer a guidebook for both coping with and negotiating the difficult terrain of life after great personal loss. In the book's opening section, the speaker explains to a Martian the ways we earthlings attempt to raise our dead--"you'll find that with dreams // we exhume our dead without the mess /of upturned dirt"--and later finds comfort in objects that connect her to her late Mr. Fix-It father. These are elegies whose solemnity has been upended by humor and the nuanced interrogations of the daily rituals that heal us. "How do you / do it, start the experiment-- / gas up, each day, anew?" she asks. Oatmeal and duct tape help, London suggests, but ultimately the heart decides: The "old tubes, they play on." |