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It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lia PurpuraSeries:Penguin PoetsPublish date:2015-09-29Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143126904ISBN-10:143126903UPC:9780143126904Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC5WGDA9NY
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143126904ISBN-10:143126903UPC:9780143126904Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC5WGDA9NY
Lia Purpura is the author of three collections of poems, The Brighter the Veil, Stone Sky Lifting, and King Baby, and three collections of essays, Increase, Rough Likeness, and On Looking, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fulbright Fellowships as well as three Pushcart prizes, among other honors. Her work appears frequently in The New Yorker, as well as in The Paris Review, Orion, Agni, Best American Essays and other publications. She is writer in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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