{"product_id":"upstairs-listening-9781950744121","title":"Upstairs, Listening","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough musically muscular verse at once tender and unflinching, Melinda LePere leads us along the fault lines of a seasoned life into spare domestic spaces, rooms populated by ghosts and puppets, Sunday gravy and severed limbs. Here, the music of the riptide competes with a cathedral's pipe organ and the slap and scratch of cars with a vacuum's roar. And to all of it, a child is always \u003cem\u003eupstairs, listening\u003c\/em\u003e. These poems know their weight. And they know us, too, how we sometimes wonder if every family is \"a kind of prison.\" Listen, \"someone is rhyming a ball against the house.\" Here we are, skittish as horses, a \"flailing animal fighting for release.\" Here, we are heard; here, we are seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eJennifer Sperry Steinorth, author of \u003cem\u003eA Wake with Nine Shades\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHer Read, A Graphic Poem\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melinda Lepere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michigan Writers Cooperative Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950744121","brand":"Michigan Writers Cooperative Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42439219642505,"sku":"9781950744121","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_caf9f36d-14e6-4c95-bcf7-5589d4cc873c.jpg?v=1716270192","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/upstairs-listening-9781950744121","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}