DIV This award-winning poet's third collection tells a quasi-creation story through petitions, a...
A trailblazer of the contemporary essay, Purpura meditates on existential subjects as diverse as ...
A powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia Purpura ...
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne ...
Lyric essays that examine the smallest things imaginable--beach glass, the color "e;"e;gu...
Increase is Lia Purpura's chronicle of her pregnancy, the birth of her son, Joseph, and the first...
Increase is Lia Purpura's chronicle of her pregnancy, the birth of her son, Joseph, and the first...
Purpura's beautifully wrought second collection of lyric essays, addressing the ethics and aesthe...