{"product_id":"rough-likeness-essays-paperback","title":"Rough Likeness: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLia Purpura\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLia 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, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over anything, from the tiniest shards of beach glass to barren big-box wastelands. They detonate distractedness, superficiality, artificiality. In the process, Purpura inhabits many stances: metaphysician and biologist, sensualist and witness--all in service of illuminating that which Virginia Woolf called \"moments of being\"--previously unworded but palpably felt states of existence and knowing. \u003ci\u003eRough Likeness\u003c\/i\u003e finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLia Purpura is the author of seven collections of poetry, essays, and translations. Her book of essays, \u003ci\u003e On Looking \u003c\/i\u003e(Sarabande Books), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In addition, she has earned fellowships and prizes from Pushcart Press, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Program, the Maryland State Arts Council, Loyola University, the MacDowell Colony, the Associated Writing Program (in nonfiction), and Alice James Press (the Beatrice Hawley Award). Her essays and poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, AGNI\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, and were cited five times in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. Lia Purpura is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop and is Writer-in-Residence at Loyola University in Baltimore, MD. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, conductor Jed Gaylin, and their son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 149\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 20, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769916326176,"sku":"9781936747030","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/151a5b9f45dddeb093bd66073fc91c77.webp?v=1780359752","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/rough-likeness-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}