On Looking Essays - Lia Purpura

Purpura Is The Real Deal, And So Is Every Successive Sentence In This Collection. A Cornucopiac Vocabulary Is Married To A Strict Economy Of Expression; An Offbeat Curiosity Is Married To The Courage Of Difficult Witnessing.albert Goldbarthldquo;purpuras Prose Is A System Of Delicate Shocksmdash;leaps And Connections And Syncopated Revelations, All In The Service Of The Spirit Negotiating The Truth Of Its Experience.sven Birkertslia Purpuras Daring Book Of Lyric Essays, On Looking, Is Concerned With The Aesthetics And Ethics Of Seeing. In These Elegantly Wrought Meditations, Patterns And Meanings Emerge From Confusion, The Commonplace Grows Strange And Complex, Beauty Reveals Its Flaws, And Even The Most Repulsive Object Turns Gorgeous.