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Chilling, funny, devastating: Upton’s characters backtrack into the past, then make their way forward with humiliation as their guide.
List of contents
Table of ContentsThe Tao of Humiliation
What Doesn¿t Kill You Makes Me Stronger
The Live One
You Know Yoüve Made It When They Hate You
The Undressed Mirror
La Belle Dame Sans Professeur
The Bottled Mermaid
Fly Me to the Moons
The Swan Princess
Will Anyone Ever Know Me
Bashful
My Temple
Escape from the Dark Forest
The Ideal Reader
Beyond The Yellow Wallpaper
Touch Us
Let Go
The Floating Woman
The Last Satyr
¿The Strange Heart Beating Where It Lies¿
About the author
Lee Upton is the author of twelve other books, including the novella
The Guide to the Flying Island, and a collection of essays about writing,
Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition Boredom Purity & Secrecy. Her poetry has appeared in editions of
The Best American Poetry and has been included in numerous anthologies as well as in
The New Republic, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Harvard Review, New England Review, Poetry, and other magazines. More than three dozen of her short stories have been published, appearing in such journals as
Antioch Review, Epoch, Short Fiction (England), Redivider, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, and
Ascent. She has published more than fifty articles and essays about literature. Her awards include: the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America; the Pushcart Prize; the National Poetry Series Award; the Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Award; the BOA Short Fiction Prize; and the Mary Louise VanArtsdalen Prize for Scholarship, the Marquis Teaching Award, and the Jones Faculty Lecture Award at Lafayette College, where she is the Writer-in-Residence and a professor of English.
