Rough Likeness : Essays
by
Lia Purpura
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1936747030
ISBN-13
9781936747030
Publisher
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Imprint
Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 2nd, 2012
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
212 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essays
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Lyric essays that examine the smallest things imaginable--beach glass, the color "gunmetal," a mushroom--as well as states of being.
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.
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