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List of contents
On Coming Back as a Buzzard
The Lustres
"Poetry is a Satisfying of the Desire for Resemblance"
Against "Gunmetal"
Street Scene
Being of Two Minds
"Try Our Delicious Pizza"
Augury
There Are Things Awry Here
Jump
Grey
Advice
On Luxury
Remembering
On Tools
Shit's Beautiful
Memo Re: Beach Glass
Two Experiments and a Coda
About the author
Lia Purpura is the author of seven collections of poetry, essays, and translations. Her book of essays, On Looking (Sarabande Books), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition, she has earned fellowships and prizes from Pushcart Press, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Program, the Maryland State Arts Council, Loyola University, the MacDowell Colony, the Associated Writing Program (in nonfiction), and Alice James Press (the Beatrice Hawley Award). Her essays and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, AGNI, and The Georgia Review, among others, and were cited five times in Best American Essays. Lia Purpura is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop and is Writer-in-Residence at Loyola University in Baltimore, MD. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, conductor Jed Gaylin, and their son.
Summary
Lyric essays that examine the smallest things imaginable--beach glass, the color "gunmetal," a mushroom--as well as states of being.
Foreword
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