From Our Soundbooth | March 13, 2014

Interview: Lia Purpura

This week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth we talk to writer Lia Purpura about her essays and poems. Lia Purpura is the author of three collections of poems (King Baby, Stone Sky Lifting, and The Brighter the Veil), three collections of essays (Rough Likeness, On Looking, Increase), and one collection of translations, (Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash).

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