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Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, Lee Upton is author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49764798464273,"sku":"CIN1938160320G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51504792371473,"sku":"CIN1938160320VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52669466181905,"sku":"NLS9781938160325","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756947730705,"sku":"NIN9781938160325","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1938160320.jpg?v=1751380467"},{"product_id":"bottle-the-bottles-the-bottles-the-bottles-book-lee-upton-9780986025778","title":"Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles","description":"Poetry. 'What if I won't find what I expect when I open this?' is one of the first lines in Lee Upton's excellent new book, BOTLE THE BOTLES THE BOTLES THE BOTLES. It's the perfect salutation for a book that deals out genuine surprise--in thought, image, and feeling --with the formal dexterity of a Vegas pit boss. This is without a doubt my new favorite book. Upton has long been a well-respected poet, prose writer, and literary critic, but she deserves much more popular attention, including yours.-- Erin Belieu\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lee Upton is a poet of rare intelligence and craft. She has a cold eye and a warm heart, and her poems are well-made, moving, intellectually stimulating. Among my favorites in BOTLE THE BOTLES THE BOTLES THE BOTLES, her admirable new collection, are poems that resemble an unconventional verse essay on a subject disclosed in the poem's title. Anyone who has spent dreary hours in time-consuming meetings will enjoy Upton's transmutation of the experience in 'The Committee.' A meditation on 'The Defeatists'--people whose reflexive mantra is 'we're not out of the woods yet'--includes the paradox that even their search for disappointment is bound to result in failure. In 'Modesty, ' Scheherazade, the 'patron saint of suspense, ' beguiles her tyrant with her tales, though 'At some level \/\/ she could do nothing for him.' This thought is capped off with the stunning couplet that ends the poem: 'Neither could have \/ Chekhov.' These are poems to read, reread, and ponder. The rich heritage of English poetry--Herrick, Keats, Poe, Dickinson, Wallace Stevens--hovers over Upton's labors and adds an extra layer of wit for the discerning reader.--David Lehman\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These poems have tensile strength and pleasurable intelligence. They're muscular and ironic. Some are tough minded and thistle-prickly (as Flannery O'Connor was tough and prickly, also with a dash of Plath). The swallowed violence in fairy tales and 'the romantic' is reimagined here. Female archetypes are one of Upton's touchstones: Pandora, Salome, mermaids, Lady Macbeth, Persephone. The poems interrogate ways we used to live versus what we're in the grip of now. And they question what beauty is, in a voice both droll and fierce. They give off a dark gleam.-- Amy Gerstler","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50013852827921,"sku":"CIN0986025771G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0986025771.jpg?v=1751045577"},{"product_id":"approximate-darling-book-lee-upton-9780820318110","title":"Approximate Darling","description":"In her most ambitious collection of poems to date, Lee Upton extends and deepens her experiments with perception and language. Drawn into the orbit of her poems are multiple figurations - a Dante-inspired guide and a Leonardo da Vinci cartoon, Hamlet's Gertrude, and Lewis Carroll's Alice - and Emily Dickinson, Beatrix Potter, Louise Bogan, and Sylvia Plath. While investigating elements of women's biological, emotional, and spiritual experiences that prove particularly recalcitrant to language, she draws her attention to the relentless experiment of pregnancy and childbirth. Upton examines fleeting moments when objects are seen at the periphery of vision and draws upon the language we use in contemplating the psychic aftereffects of contemporary violence, dispossession, and exclusion.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50370755133713,"sku":"CIN0820318116G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0820318116.jpg?v=1750849882"},{"product_id":"guide-to-the-flying-island-book-lee-upton-9781607435716","title":"The Guide to the Flying Island","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394352582929,"sku":"CIN1607435713G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1607435713.jpg?v=1750862810"},{"product_id":"day-every-day-is-book-lee-upton-9781947817500","title":"The Day Every Day Is","description":"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 another. The poems are often attentive to suffering: torture as it persists through centuries, the extinction of species, and the agonies of illness, grief, and the blasting of innocence are meditated upon. At the same time, in this book of mysteries, the cultivation of the redemptive energy of wit, in favor of the sensual and tender, performs as a means to resist violence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394519470353,"sku":"CIN1947817507G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50751043076369,"sku":"CIN1947817507VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055677112593,"sku":"NIN9781947817500","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51731993428241,"sku":"GOR014383071","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52902329614609,"sku":"CIN1947817507LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1947817507.jpg?v=1751188374"},{"product_id":"swallowing-the-sea-book-lee-upton-9781936797134","title":"Swallowing the Sea","description":"Literary Nonfiction. This is an inspiring book about writing and--more unusually--a book that honors ambition, that idiosyncratic drive that compels writers and other artists to action despite every kind of obstacle. Upton explores forces that threaten our ability to fulfill the most daring aspirations, and she examines ambition's adjuncts, including failure, boredom, and purity, offering a provocative antidote: obsession. Ultimately Upton argues for a new perception of literary art as a good secret for our time, when our interior lives and our imaginations are under threat.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395046641937,"sku":"CIN1936797135LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054467252497,"sku":"NIN9781936797134","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1936797135.jpg?v=1751156759"},{"product_id":"tabitha-get-up-book-lee-upton-9781952386893","title":"Tabitha, Get Up","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50993787568401,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50993790353681,"sku":"NIN9781952386893","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51606129901841,"sku":"CIN1952386896G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52650425385233,"sku":"NLS9781952386893","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1952386896.jpg?v=1750901215"},{"product_id":"swallowing-the-sea-book-lee-upton-9781936797141","title":"Swallowing the Sea","description":"Literary Nonfiction. 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A twisty literary mystery dealing with duplicity, envy, betrayal, and love between an entertainment agent and a self-deprecating former priest, Wrongful explores the many ways we can get everything wrong, time and again, even after we're certain we discovered the truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51607948263697,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51607948460305,"sku":"CIN1963846214G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52619406147857,"sku":"NLS9781963846218","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52757462417681,"sku":"NIN9781963846218","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1963846214.jpg?v=1751348453"},{"product_id":"visitations-book-lee-upton-9780807168127","title":"Visitations","description":"In this latest collection from Lee Upton, characters navigate often bewildering situations, from the homeschooled girl trying to communicate telepathically with an injured man she finds on the beach to the experimental theater troupe (called the Community Playas) composed primarily of actors the story's narrator has wronged or been wronged by.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740211835153,"sku":"NIN9780807168127","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780807168127.jpg?v=1763481890"},{"product_id":"withers-book-lee-upton-9781646037322","title":"The Withers","description":"In the aftermath of a devastating epidemic, bodies marked with eerie patterns called withers become symbols of a painful past-- a past many want to forget. 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