{"product_id":"purpura-lia-rough-likepb","title":"Purpura, Lia.: Rough Likeness: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eSarabande, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 20, 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003cspan\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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRough Likeness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817268293655,"sku":"9781936747030","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/s-l400_ea38845d-e685-498f-a41b-695739f87fd0.jpg?v=1745529717","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/purpura-lia-rough-likepb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}