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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eBooklist\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the profane.\"\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eTime Out New York\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003eWhen you spend many hours alone in a room\u003cBR\u003eyou have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself\u0026#151;\u003cBR\u003ethis is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal\u003cBR\u003ebut that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught us\u003cBR\u003edo not touch it, but who can keep from touching it,\u003cBR\u003efrom scratching off the juicy scab? Today I bit\u003cBR\u003ea thick hangnail and thought of Schneebaum,\u003cBR\u003ewho walked four days into the jungle\u003cBR\u003eand stayed for the kindness of the tribe\u0026#151;\u003cBR\u003ewho would have thought that cannibals would be so tender?\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eLucia Perillo\u003c/B\u003e's \u003cI\u003eInseminating the Elephant\u003c/I\u003e (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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cBR\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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