{"product_id":"it-shouldn-t-have-been-beautiful-9780143126904","title":"It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e contributor Lia Purpura\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Lia Purpura has won national acclaim as both a poet and an essayist. The exquisitely rendered poems in this, her fourth collection, reach back to an early affinity for proverbs and riddles and the proto-poetry found in those forms. Taking on epic subjects—time and memory, metamorphosis and indeterminacy, the complicated nature of beauty, wordless states of being—each poem explores a bright, crisp, singular moment of awareness or shock or revelation.  Purpura reminds us that short poems, never merely brief nor fragmentary, can transcend their size, like small dogs, espresso, a drop of mercury.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62236238119299,"sku":"9780143126904","price":28.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780143126904.jpg?v=1785358727","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/it-shouldn-t-have-been-beautiful-9780143126904","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}