Upgraded to Serious
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2009
- Category
- General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887849404
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $18.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887848414
- Publish Date
- Sep 2009
- List Price
- $18.95
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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.
About the author
Heather McHugh's books of poetry include the Pulitzer Prize finalist Eyeshot; the National Book Award finalist and Bingham Poetry Prize winner Hinge & Sign: Poems 1963-1993; and the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning translation (with Nikolai Popov) Glottal Stop 101: Poems of Paul Celan. McHugh was Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and is currently Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is also a fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
