{"product_id":"it-shouldnt-have-been-beautiful-paperback","title":"It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLia Purpura\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributor Lia Purpura\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLia Purpura\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three collections of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Brighter the Veil\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStone Sky Lifting\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKing Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, and three collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eIncrease\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRough Likeness\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOn Looking\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and Fulbright Fellowships as well as three Pushcart prizes, among other honors. Her work appears frequently in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as in \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Agni\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. She is writer in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695594672191,"sku":"9780143126904","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/56337cf8fd06aecb755f41e1e1c9b069.webp?v=1765004348","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/it-shouldnt-have-been-beautiful-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}