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Rough Likeness
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Praise for Lia Purpura:"Lia Purpura is fierce. She creates a kind of word origami, folding phonemes and inquiries into intricate paper delights. Then she holds a magnifying glass over them, focusing her rapturous attentions through the lens, until twists of smoke appear, and geometries of flame and sparks rain. If language is, as she suggests in one essay, 'a game we all [agree] to play,' then Purpura is at once a master of the game and a soulful, wild playmate."as well as states of being. Czes…
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  • Year: 2018
  • Pages: 171
  • ISBN: 9781936747344
  • ISBN-10: 1936747340
  • ISBN-13: 9781936747344
  • Format: ePub
  • Language: English

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Praise for Lia Purpura:"Lia Purpura is fierce. She creates a kind of word origami, folding phonemes and inquiries into intricate paper delights. Then she holds a magnifying glass over them, focusing her rapturous attentions through the lens, until twists of smoke appear, and geometries of flame and sparks rain. If language is, as she suggests in one essay, 'a game we all [agree] to play,' then Purpura is at once a master of the game and a soulful, wild playmate."as well as states of being. Czeslaw Milosz said, "nothing but gifts on this poor, poor earth," and Purpura, in her excursions, finds worlds in the minute, crafting monuments to sentience.

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  • Author: Lia Purpura
  • Publisher:
  • Year: 2018
  • Pages: 171
  • ISBN: 9781936747344
  • ISBN-10: 1936747340
  • ISBN-13: 9781936747344
  • Format: ePub
  • Language: English English

Praise for Lia Purpura:"Lia Purpura is fierce. She creates a kind of word origami, folding phonemes and inquiries into intricate paper delights. Then she holds a magnifying glass over them, focusing her rapturous attentions through the lens, until twists of smoke appear, and geometries of flame and sparks rain. If language is, as she suggests in one essay, 'a game we all [agree] to play,' then Purpura is at once a master of the game and a soulful, wild playmate."as well as states of being. Czeslaw Milosz said, "nothing but gifts on this poor, poor earth," and Purpura, in her excursions, finds worlds in the minute, crafting monuments to sentience.

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