{"product_id":"upkeep-sara-london-9781945588396","title":"Upkeep","description":"The poems in Sara London's \u003ci\u003eUpkeep\u003c\/i\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 194558839X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945588396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.10w x 0.30d","brand":"Sara London","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940270440703,"sku":"9781945588396","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_225acc6d-0bf7-4b53-81be-a30a56e4c566.jpg?v=1681446229","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/upkeep-sara-london-9781945588396","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}