It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful
β Scribed by Lia Purpura
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0698183320
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia Purpura
Lia Purpura has won national acclaim as both a poet and an essayist. The exquisitely rendered poems in this, her fourth collection, reach back to an early affinity for proverbs and riddles and the proto-poetry found in those forms. Taking on epic subjectsβtime and memory, metamorphosis and indeterminacy, the complicated nature of beauty, wordless states of beingβeach poem explores a bright, crisp, singular moment of awareness or shock or revelation. Purpura reminds us that short poems, never merely brief nor fragmentary, can transcend their size, like small dogs, espresso, a drop of mercury.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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