| Description |
86 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Penguin Poets |
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Penguin poets.
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| Summary |
" 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. |
| Subject |
POETRY / American / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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It should not have been beautiful |
| ISBN |
9780143126904 paperback |
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0143126903 paperback |
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