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It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful

It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful

Purpura, Lia

Paperback

Series: Penguin Poets

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0143126903
ISBN13: 9780143126904
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 29 2015
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
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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