Rough Likeness: Essays

by Lia Purpura

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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"

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