Lia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversatio
King Baby is a cycle of lyric poems both inspired by and addressed to a found object made animate?then made into a confessor?by the poet’s fascination, and by a love that alternates between the famili
Readers familiar with Lia Purpura’s highly praised essay collections—Becoming, On Looking, and Rough Likeness—will know she’s a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between huma
“Purpura is the real deal, and so is every successive sentence in this collection. A cornucopiac vocabulary is married to a strict economy of expression; an offbeat curiosity is married to the courage
A powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia PurpuraLia Purpura has won national acclaim as both a poet and an essayist. The exquisitely rendered poems in thi
Increase 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
