All the Fierce Tethers by Lia Purpura
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Overview: 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 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.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Short Stories
Scream (or Never Minding)
On Photographing Children in Trees
Entry Cove
My Eagles
Dot
Of Prayer
In the Despoiled and Radiant Now
All the Fierce Tethers
Three-Legged Branch
Metaphor Studies
Adventures in Beauty
Brief Treatise Against Irony
Walk with Snowy Things
Bloodspots (I)
Bloodspots (II)
Bloodspots (III)
Bloodspots (IV): Coda
On Shadows: Some Investigations
Loss Collection
Study with Crape Myrtle
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