From Winter 2008 Explore This Issue Attendant Surprise: An Interview with Stephen Kuusisto By Lia Purpura From the Winter 2008 Issue Lia Purpura’s new collection of poems is It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful (Penguin/Viking, 2015). She is Writer-in-Residence at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. ← Disproportionate & A Partial List of Unacknowledged Musics (Feel Free to Add Your Own) → Inbetween Deaths