It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful
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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 subjects--time and memory, metamorphosis and indeterminacy, the complicated nature of beauty, wordless states of being--each 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0143126903
ISBN13:9780143126904
Release Date:September 2015
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.31 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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