Lucia Perillo, Author . Random $19.95 (98p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6323-9
Recipient of a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship, Perillo has turned out a fourth collection of poems in her signature style: sassy, slangy and aggressively matter-of-fact: "So ta-dah
," she writes, "Here's the moment to which we've been
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Lucia Perillo, Author . Copper Canyon $22 (93p) ISBN 978-1-55659-291-1
Perillo is poet who aggressively, unflinchingly and humorously takes it all in; her poems here feature an ode to Motorola, a fat junkie, a bra fitting and Plath's hair, not to mention the act described in the title poem. She is not afraid of...
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Lucia Perillo. Norton, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-08353-8
MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize–nominated poet Perillo debuts a work of fiction in a lyrical short story collection that reveals a genius for plot and metaphor. The collection’s 14 stories take place in the Pacific Northwest and chart a broad...
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Lucia Perillo. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $22 (94p) ISBN 978-1-55659-397-0
Perillo has long lived with, and written about, her struggle with debilitating multiple sclerosis. Her bracing sixth book of poems, published concurrently with her debut story collection, takes an unflinching, though not unsmiling, look at mortality.
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Lucia Perillo. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $23 trade paper (244p) ISBN 978-1-55659-473-1
With this volume that spans more than 20 years and six poetry collections, Perillo (On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths), a poet, fiction writer, and MacArthur Fellow, exhibits her range and depth in exquisite yet unfussy poems. She writes skillfully
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