Sadness, Restaurant (audio only) Click the icon above to listen to this audio poem. Author Lia Purpura Lia Purpura is the author of It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Penguin Books, 2015) and lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Date Published 10/25/2013
Lia Purpura Lia Purpura is the author of It Shouldn't Have Been Beautiful (Penguin Books, 2015) and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.