L. Purpura - IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL (PENGUIN POETS) - Paperback ALUMNI AUTHORS "Pivotal Voices

"Pivotal Voices

the combined skylines of these two cities tattooed on Borich’s own back

Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University

can we all get along

L. Purpura - IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL (PENGUIN POETS) - Paperback ALUMNI AUTHORS "Pivotal VoicesLia Purpura, MFA Author Lia 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 subjectstime and memory, metamorphosis and indeterminacy, the complicated nature of beauty, wordless states of beingeach poem explores a bright, crisp, singular moment of awareness or