{"product_id":"all-the-fierce-tethers","title":"All the Fierce Tethers","description":"Readers familiar with Lia Purpura’s highly praised essay collections—Increase, 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.","brand":"Sarabande Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54253718995288,"sku":"9781946448309","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781946448309_3914b2d2-0fd8-4263-a571-18d7ced8d3bf.jpg?v=1770134446","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/all-the-fierce-tethers","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}