It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful

by Lia Purpura

Book Overview

A powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia Purpura 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143126903
• ISBN13: 9780143126904
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"