{"product_id":"all-the-fierce-tethers-9781946448309","title":"All the Fierce Tethers","description":"Readers familiar with Lia Purpura's highly praised essay collections--Increase, On Looking, and Rough Likeness--will know she's a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between humans and the things they see. The subject matter of All the Fierce Tethers is wonderfully varied, both low (muskrats, slugs, a stained quilt in a motel room) and lofty (shadows, prayer, the idea of beauty). In \"Treatise Against Irony,\" she counters this all-too modern affliction with ferocious optimism and intelligence: \"The opposite of irony is nakedness.\" In \"My Eagles,\" our nation's symbol is viewed from all angles--nesting, flying, politicized, preserved. The essay in itself could be a small anthology. And, in a fresh move, Purpura turns to her own, racially divided Baltimore neighborhood, where a blood stain appears on a street separating East (with its Value Village) and West (with its community garden). Finalist for the National Book Critics Award, winner of the Pushcart Prize, Lia Purpura returns with a collection both sustaining and challenging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946448309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/17\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lia Purpura","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36672242876572,"sku":"9781946448309","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ae527a03-9440-4c70-a1df-5b40c2cb62ca.jpg?v=1603927284","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-the-fierce-tethers-9781946448309","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}