L. Purpura - IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL (PENGUIN POETS) - Paperback ACCESSORIES Haunted by the memories of

Haunted by the memories of his two tours in Iraq and burnt out on soldiering

falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier

Dean Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University

thirteen scholars of European history

- Martin Warner

L. Purpura - IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL (PENGUIN POETS) - Paperback ACCESSORIES Haunted by the memories ofLia Purpura, MFA Author 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 subjectstime and memory, metamorphosis and indeterminacy, the complicated nature of beauty, wordless states of beingeach poem explores a bright, crisp, singular moment of awareness or