{"product_id":"rough-likeness-essays-9781936747030","title":"Rough Likeness: Essays","description":"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, conversational excursions refuse to let a reader slide over anything, from the tiniest shards of beach glass to barren big-box wastelands. They detonate distractedness, superficiality, artificiality. In the process, Purpura inhabits many stances: metaphysician and biologist, sensualist and witness--all in service of illuminating that which Virginia Woolf called \"moments of being\"--previously unworded but palpably felt states of existence and knowing. \"Rough Likeness\" finds worlds in the minute, and crafts monuments to beauty and strangeness. \u003cbr\u003e\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 12\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936747030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2012 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lia Purpura","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671177523356,"sku":"9781936747030","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0d04eb8c-da45-42ee-a6a7-dbb164540efd.jpg?v=1603924762","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/rough-likeness-essays-9781936747030","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}