Results for "Upton, Lee"

Tabitha is a lonely fifty-year-old biographer who, in order to restore her self-respect and pay her rent, attempts to write two biographies simultaneously: one about an actor so famous his face is on the side of buses, and the other about a popular writer of children's books recently outed as an aut... Read More about Tabitha, Get Up

Chilling, funny, devastating: Upton's characters backtrack into the past, then make their way forward with humiliation as their guide.... Read More about The Tao of Humiliation

"Poignant, exquisite, and endlessly witty" -- Kirkus Review (Starred Review) "People--the species defies logic " reflects the protagonist of one of the dazzling, intricate stories in Visitations. In this latest collection from Lee Upton, characters navigate often bewildering situations, from the h... Read More about Visitations: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction)

Whether crisp and understated or capacious and kinetic, the poems in Lee Upton’ s seventh collection are lyrically dexterous and reverberant. Shrewd, formally ambitious, excavating cultural myths and contradictions, these poems allow the ordinary and the supernatural to inhabit one anoth... Read More about The Day Every Day Is

A kiss is never just a kiss--heat-seeking, information bearing, coded. In this inspired collection, poet and editor Diane Lockward has assembled over 100 poems about kisses written by many of our best contemporary poets. You'll find kisses longed for, kisses auditioned, kisses rehearsed. Ritualistic... Read More about A Constellation of Kisses