Results for "Perillo, Lucia"

The poems in The Body Mutinies bring speech to those accomplishments of the body that are most often relegated to silence, though in Perillo's usage "accomplishments" may include illness, death, and certainly sex. Her textual landscape includes rock climbers and the ill, female killers who take to t... Read More about Body Mutinies

"Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake."--Booklist "The poems are] taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficultie... Read More about Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems

A New York Times Book Review "100 Notable Books of the Year" selection; Publishers Weekly "Top 10 Poetry Book of the Year"; winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for Poetry; and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. "Perillo has long lived with, and written about, he... Read More about On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

"Inseminating the Elephant is] a collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examines popular culture, the limits of the human body, and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience."--Pulitzer Prize finalist citation "These poems are tough and witty."--The New Yorker "Whoever told you poetr... Read More about Inseminating the Elephant (Lannan Literary Selections)

Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was in her thirties. I've Heard the Vultures ... Read More about I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature

A starred review in Publishers Weekly called Lucia Perillo's new book a "marvelous collection." "Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake."--Booklist "For a poet obsess... Read More about Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems