Bøger af Lia Purpura

Lyric essays that examine the smallest things imaginable--beach glass, the color "gunmetal," a mushroom--as well as states of "being."

A trailblazer of the contemporary essay, Purpura meditates on existential subjects as diverse as eagles, irony, racially divided neighborhoods, and the idea of beauty.

This is Lia Purpura's chronicle of her pregnancy, the birth of her son, Joseph, and the first year of his life. She recounts her journey with the heightened awareness of a mother-to-be and through the eyes of a poet.