{"product_id":"london-sara-upkeeppb","title":"London, Sara: Upkeep","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour Way, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: \u003cspan\u003eSeptember 03, 2019\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\u003eThe poems in Sara London's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUpkeep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817275535383,"sku":"9781945588396","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/71eY_dQ8AL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1743117008","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/london-sara-upkeeppb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}