{"product_id":"it-shouldnt-have-been-beautiful-penguin-poets","title":"It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Penguin Poets)","description":"A powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia Purpura\n\nLia 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 of being—each poem explores a bright, crisp, singular moment of awareness or shock or revelation. Purpura reminds us that short poems, never merely brief nor fragmentary, can transcend their size, like small dogs, espresso, a drop of mercury.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0143126903\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0143126903.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Purpura, Lia\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42951883718717,"sku":"BVV.0143126903.VG","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0143126903-0.jpg?v=1769549263","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/it-shouldnt-have-been-beautiful-penguin-poets","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}