2011
First Published
3.94
Average Rating
224
Number of Pages
Lia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over anything, from the tiniest shards of beach glass to barren big-box wastelands. They detonate distractedness, superficiality, artificiality. In the process, Purpura inhabits many stances: metaphysician and biologist, sensualist and witness—all in service of illuminating that which Virginia Woolf called “moments of being”—previously unworded but palpably felt states of existence and knowing. Rough Likeness finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness.
Avg Rating
3.94
Number of Ratings
130
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
Lia Purpura
Author · 8 books
Lia Purpura (born February 22, 1964, Mineola, New York) is an American poet, writer and educator. (from Wikipedia)
