Upgraded to Serious

"If McHugh is serious, she's anything but grim; with all her punning, bantering, and mock scolding of herself . . . she brightens the shadowy corners of her world with verbal pyrotechnics." The New York Times Book Review "Her poems are open, resilient, invisibly twisted: part safety net, part trampoline." Voice Literary Supplement This fast-paced, verbally dexterous bookhonored as a "Book of the Year" by Publishers Weekly "boils up and boils over" as it utilizes medical terminology and iconograp