Rough Likeness: Essays

by Lia Purpura

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936747030
• ISBN13: 9781936747030
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"