It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful
Author | : Lia Purpura |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780143126904 |
ISBN-13 | : 0143126903 |
Rating | : 4/5 (903 Downloads) |
Download or read book It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful written by Lia Purpura and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.