{"product_id":"it-shouldnt-have-been-beautiful-lia-purpura-9780143126904","title":"It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributor Lia Purpura\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lia Purpura\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143126903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143126904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/21\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2015 pg. 91","brand":"Lia Purpura","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992864620799,"sku":"9780143126904","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6908b533-886a-4ce8-bf6a-3f2a419a1839.jpg?v=1683321234","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/it-shouldnt-have-been-beautiful-lia-purpura-9780143126904","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}