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On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

✍ Scribed by Perillo, Lucia

Book ID
107717637
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Tongue
English
Weight
192 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

"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."Β—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."Β—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.

When you spend many hours alone in a room
you have more than the usual chances to disgust yourselfΒ—
this is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal
but that... ϑ쯦랠

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