Increase is Lia Purpura’s chronicle of her pregnancy, the birth of her son, Joseph, and the first year of his life. She recounts her journey with the heightened awareness of a mother-to-be and through
Readers familiar with Lia Purpura’s highly praised essay collections—Becoming, On Looking, and Rough Likeness—will know she’s a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between huma
Lia 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, conversatio
King Baby is a cycle of lyric poems both inspired by and addressed to a found object made animate?then made into a confessor?by the poet’s fascination, and by a love that alternates between the famili
A powerful new collection from poet, essayist, and frequent New Yorker contributor Lia PurpuraLia Purpura has won national acclaim as both a poet and an essayist. The exquisitely rendered poems in thi
“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
