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 book—honored as a "Book of the ...