by Lia Purpura (Author)
King Baby is a cycle of lyric poems both inspired by and addressed to a found object made animate--then made into a confessor--by the poet's fascination, and by a love that alternates between the familial, obsessive, and devotional.
Author Biography
Lia Purpura is the author of two collections of essays, On Looking (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and Increase; two previous collections of poems, Stone Sky Lifting and The Brighter the Veil; and a collection of translations. She has received NEA and Fulbright fellowships, as well as an Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Ohio State University Press Award, and the Towson University Prize in Literature. She is Writerin-Residence at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.