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All the Fierce Tethers

All the Fierce Tethers

Purpura, Lia

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Letters & EssaysGeneral SociologyNature Writing

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ISBN10: 1946448303
ISBN13: 9781946448309
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: Apr 9 2019
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Readers familiar with Lia Purpura's highly praised essay collections--Increase, On Looking, and Rough Likeness--will know she's a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between humans and the things they see. The subject matter of All the Fierce Tethers is wonderfully varied, both low (muskrats, slugs, a stained quilt in a motel room) and lofty (shadows, prayer, the idea of beauty). In Treatise Against Irony, she counters this all-too modern affliction with ferocious optimism and intelligence: The opposite of irony is nakedness. In My Eagles, our nation's symbol is viewed from all angles--nesting, flying, politicized, preserved. The essay in itself could be a small anthology. And, in a fresh move, Purpura turns to her own, racially divided Baltimore neighborhood, where a blood stain appears on a street separating East (with its Value Village) and West (with its community garden). Finalist for the National Book Critics Award, winner of the Pushcart Prize, Lia Purpura returns with a collection both sustaining and challenging.

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