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On the spectrum of possible deaths, Lucia Perillo

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poetry

On the spectrum of possible deaths

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Lucia Perillo

"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, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions.", Booklist"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the profane.", Time Out New York"The poetry of Lucia Perillo is fierce, tragicomic, and contrarian, with subjects ranging from coyotes and Scotch broom to local elections and family history. Formally braided, Perillo gathers strands of the mythic and mundane, of media and daily life, as she faces the treachery of illness and draws readers into poems rich in image and story ... Lucia Perillo's Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Bobbitt award from the Library of Congress. She lives in Seattle, Washington.", Copper Canyon Press

The poems in this book swerve and leap and run with the possibility that our final slip on the banana peel will be a giddy ride into the wild blue yonder, even as they acknowledge that this prospect is willfully naive. With subjects that range across history, from epic heroes of ancient Greece, to the beach at Normandy, to the petty competition between an invasive plant species and a strip mall, these poems are formally braided while gathering strands of the mythic and mundane

The second slaughter -- Again, the body -- My father kept the tv on -- After the names are gone, the damage will remain -- To the field of scotch broom that will be buried by the new wing of the mall -- The caucus -- Domestic -- Skedans -- I could name some names -- Cold snap, November -- Auntie Roach -- Another treatise on beauty -- -- Bad French movie -- Proximity to meaningful spectacle -- Hokkaido -- At the hatchery -- Victor the shaman -- Wheel -- After reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead -- The black rider -- Pioneer -- Fireball -- To Carlos Castaneda -- 300D -- Photograph: the enemy -- Photograph: Grandfather, 1915 -- Gleaner at the equinox -- Lubricating the void -- Not housewives, not widows -- Freak-out -- Maypole -- Matins -- Black transit -- Heronry -- Les dauphins -- Rashomon -- Stargazer -- The unturning -- Wild Birds Unlimited -- Bats -- Autothalamium -- Red hat -- This red t-shirt -- The wolves of Illinois -- Pharaoh -- Samara