| Rough Likeness: Essays Contributor(s): Purpura, Lia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1936747030 ISBN-13: 9781936747030 Publisher: Sarabande Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Science | Earth Sciences - General - Social Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| LCCN: 2011007028 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.45 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lia Purpura's essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they're also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over anything, from the tiniest shards of beach glass to barren big-box wastelands. They detonate distractedness, superficiality, artificiality. In the process, Purpura inhabits many stances: metaphysician and biologist, sensualist and witness--all in service of illuminating that which Virginia Woolf called "moments of being"--previously unworded but palpably felt states of existence and knowing. Rough Likeness finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness. |