{"product_id":"shades-shades-shades-shades-shades-9780819511379","title":"Shades Shades Shades Shades Shades","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exquisite series of poems that explore living and dying.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShades is a book of shadow and light cast between trees and sun, between day and room, between life and death. It acknowledges endings as beginnings; it offers compassion and tenderness, searching for hope in the richness of nature; it seeks the same resources within the human being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeather McHugh's companion volume to To the Quick (Wesleyan 1987) continues the music and brilliance characteristic of her work but moves more deeply into the metaphysical. She writes in paradox, with serious wit and intensity, the crafted language of \"stitches in hand and birds in time\"; \"We part\/ before we part; indeed, \/ we part before we meet...\" She studies \"going matched with coming.\" She begins with a series of elegies that bring sexuality and death into brutal juxtaposition. Living and dying are the occasions of these poems, the soul the ultimate concern. This poetry takes to heart the fundamental strangeness of being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heather McHugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.52w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819511379","brand":"Wesleyan University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45109290107017,"sku":"9780819511379","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_4c117af6-83b3-4a00-9977-dd2af8f8c5d8.jpg?v=1767073912","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/shades-shades-shades-shades-shades-9780819511379","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}