It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful by Lia Purpura, Penguin Publishing Group
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Author: Lia Purpura ISBN: 9780698183322
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: September 29, 2015
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Lia Purpura
ISBN: 9780698183322
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: September 29, 2015
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

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.

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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.

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