The Body Mutinies
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 the road and women who survive by climbing out of burning buildings, even though in the process they’re forced to let modesty fly to the wind. In poems that are at once colloquial and elegant, Perillo strives to bridge the gap between the exuberant voice of the streets and the rarefied voice of literary tradition. Using the long lines and narrative style that have been identified with some of the finest male poets of our times, Perillo tells the stories of female experience with a grim eye for the comic and an ear turned to language's highest pitch.
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The Body Mutinies
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 the road and women who survive by climbing out of burning buildings, even though in the process they’re forced to let modesty fly to the wind. In poems that are at once colloquial and elegant, Perillo strives to bridge the gap between the exuberant voice of the streets and the rarefied voice of literary tradition. Using the long lines and narrative style that have been identified with some of the finest male poets of our times, Perillo tells the stories of female experience with a grim eye for the comic and an ear turned to language's highest pitch.
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The Body Mutinies

The Body Mutinies

The Body Mutinies

The Body Mutinies

Overview

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 the road and women who survive by climbing out of burning buildings, even though in the process they’re forced to let modesty fly to the wind. In poems that are at once colloquial and elegant, Perillo strives to bridge the gap between the exuberant voice of the streets and the rarefied voice of literary tradition. Using the long lines and narrative style that have been identified with some of the finest male poets of our times, Perillo tells the stories of female experience with a grim eye for the comic and an ear turned to language's highest pitch.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781557530837
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Publication date: 03/01/1996
Pages: 91
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Lucia Perillo has published one previous collection, Dangerous Life, which received the Norma Farber award from the Poetry Society of America for the best first book of 1989. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as the Atlantic and the Kenyon Review and have been included in the Pushcart and the Best American Poetry anthologies. In 2000, she earned a MacArthur fellowship. A former park ranger and teacher at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, she now lives in Olympia, Washington.
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Poetry
American Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
American poetry->20th century
American poetry->Women authors->20th century

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