| It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful Contributor(s): Purpura, Lia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143126903 ISBN-13: 9780143126904 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2015016943 |
| Series: Penguin Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.40 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |