It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful
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" 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Penguin Poets.
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 86 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780143126904
0143126903
SUBJECTS
Poetry.