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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.
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“Purpura’s charming [third collection]…captures both the fierce love and the flighty weirdness of life with a baby, opting always for the symbolic and the surprising over the literal record…”
—Publishers Weekly
“This book-length sequence is reminiscent of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, with its hypnotic voice and its otherworldly reach.”
—Library Journal
“In King Baby… Purpura uses the physical as a conduit to the metaphysical; and circles this found fetish in ever-more-incisive gyres, to probe the never-satisfied nature of human yearning…She is particularly effective at distilling those elusive slithers of creative clarity we sometimes experience in our daily lives…Purpura is a wordsmith of the highest order…”
—Susan McCallum-Smith, WYPR Radio
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