The Creatures of the World Have Not Been Chastened – Lia Purpura

Emergence Magazine Podcast - A podcast by Emergence Magazine - Tuesdays

Lia Purpura is the author of nine collections of essays, poems, and translations, including It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful and All the Fierce Tethers. In this narrated essay, Lia bears witness to the decomposing body of a deer and considers stories of “rightness”: the processes which transform bodies from one state to another and the beginnings that emerge from endings.

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