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Description
National Book Award finalist Heather McHugh presents a fast-paced and brilliantly humorous book. Utilizing medical terminology to work through loss and detachment, McHugh's startling rhymes and rhythms -- along with her sarcastic self-reflection -- serve as antidotes to the sufferings of the world. Being "upgraded to serious" from critical condition is a nod to the healing powers of poetry.
Editorial Reviews
...exactingly ravishing poetry that digs deeply into big themes...In fact, we might even say McHugh has pioneered a new poetic genre: the meditative cliffhanger. Her poems take the shape of an idea or mood clarifying itself in stages, leaving readers on tenterhooks to find out where she'll go next.
— Globe and Mail
McHugh's short, jerky lines, odd rhymes, bemused gravity and slant perspective on the world at hand bring Emily Dickinson to mind...McHugh remains one of our most important and unusual poets.
— Publishers Weekly
No linguistic fragment or emotional register is too subtle or commonplace for the movement-the glow and flow-of [Heather McHugh's] imagination.
— Oxonian Review
McHugh is known as a challenging wordsmith, but, as this collection reveals, she is also a compassionate eyewitness.
— New Yorker
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