Upkeep

von Sara London

112 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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."

• Reihe: Stahlecker Selections
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie
• ISBN: 9781945588396
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.09.2019
• Größe: 244 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Four Way Books