It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful
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Product details:
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date of Publication 29 September 2015
- ISBN 9780143126904
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages112 pages
- Size 215x139x5 mm
- Weight 182 g
- Language English 0
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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"--
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