All the Fierce Tethers by Purpura, Lia
All the Fierce Tethers by Purpura, Lia

All the Fierce Tethers

Readers familiar with Lia Purpura's highly praised essay collections--Increase, On Looking, and Rough Likeness--will know she's a...
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Author: Lia Purpura
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All the Fierce Tethers by Purpura, Lia

All the Fierce Tethers

$38.38
All the Fierce Tethers by Purpura, Lia

All the Fierce Tethers

$38.38
Author: Lia Purpura
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Readers familiar with Lia Purpura's highly praised essay collections--Increase, On Looking, and Rough Likeness--will know she's a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between humans and the things they see. The subject matter of All the Fierce Tethers is wonderfully varied, both low (muskrats, slugs, a stained quilt in a motel room) and lofty (shadows, prayer, the idea of beauty). In "Treatise Against Irony," she counters this all-too modern affliction with ferocious optimism and intelligence: "The opposite of irony is nakedness." In "My Eagles," our nation's symbol is viewed from all angles--nesting, flying, politicized, preserved. The essay in itself could be a small anthology. And, in a fresh move, Purpura turns to her own, racially divided Baltimore neighborhood, where a blood stain appears on a street separating East (with its Value Village) and West (with its community garden). Finalist for the National Book Critics Award, winner of the Pushcart Prize, Lia Purpura returns with a collection both sustaining and challenging.

Author: Lia Purpura
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 04/09/2019
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781946448309


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/17/2018
Shelf Awareness 04/09/2019
Foreword 02/26/2019

About the Author
Lia Purpura is the author of eight collections of essays, poems, and translations, most recently a collection of poems, It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Penguin). On Looking (essays, Sarabande Books) was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her awards include Guggenheim, NEA, and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as four Pushcart Prizes, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Nonfiction, and others. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Agni, and elsewhere. She is Writer in Residence at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and teaches in The Rainier Writing Workshop's MFA program. She lives in Baltimore, MD.
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