On Looking: Essays - Paperback
by Lia Purpura
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Sarabande BooksISBN-13:9781932511390ISBN-10:1932511393UPC:9781932511390Book Category:Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:EssaysAward:2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Criticism AwardSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCDJ1GHYKP
On Looking: Essays
"Purpura is the real deal, and so is every successive sentence in this collection. A cornucopiac vocabulary is married to a strict economy of expression; an offbeat curiosity is married to the courage of difficult witnessing. . . ."--Albert Goldbarth
"Purpura's prose is a system of delicate shocks--leaps and connections and syncopated revelations, all in the service of the spirit negotiating the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Sarabande BooksISBN-13:9781932511390ISBN-10:1932511393UPC:9781932511390Book Category:Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:EssaysAward:2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Criticism AwardSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCDJ1GHYKP
Purpura's Increase won the 2000 AWP Creative Nonfiction Award. Stone Sky Lifting: Poems, won the 2000 Ohio State/The Journal Award. Also the author of The Brighter the Veil (the Towson University Prize in Literature), and Poems of Grzegorz Musial, translated on a Fulbright in Poland, Purpura teaches at Loyola in Baltimore and at the Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma.
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🏆 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - Criticism Award
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