"Perillo has long lived with, and written about, her struggle with debilitating multiple sclerosis. Her bracing sixth book of poems takes an unflinching, though not unsmiling, look at mortality."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The poems in On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."—The New York Times Book Review
From "Victor the Shaman":
I feel the need for more humanitybecause the winter wren is not enough, even with its complicated music emanating
from the brambles. So I relent to my friendwho keeps bugging me to see her shaman, tutored by the Indians who live at the base
of Monte Albán. Tutored also by the heavy bagat Sonny's Gym: Box like heaven / Fight like hellhis T-shirt says; the graphic shows an angel's fist
buried to the wrist in Satan's brisket, while the princeof dark jabs the angel's kisser . . .
Lucia Perillo grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill Universityin Montreal, completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and for most of the 1990s she taught in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University. She currently resides in Olympia, Washington.
"Perillo has long lived with, and written about, her struggle with debilitating multiple sclerosis. Her bracing sixth book of poems takes an unflinching, though not unsmiling, look at mortality."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"The poems in On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."—The New York Times Book Review
From "Victor the Shaman":
I feel the need for more humanitybecause the winter wren is not enough, even with its complicated music emanating
from the brambles. So I relent to my friendwho keeps bugging me to see her shaman, tutored by the Indians who live at the base
of Monte Albán. Tutored also by the heavy bagat Sonny's Gym: Box like heaven / Fight like hellhis T-shirt says; the graphic shows an angel's fist
buried to the wrist in Satan's brisket, while the princeof dark jabs the angel's kisser . . .
Lucia Perillo grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill Universityin Montreal, completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and for most of the 1990s she taught in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University. She currently resides in Olympia, Washington.
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
96
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
96
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781556594151 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Copper Canyon Press |
| Publication date: | 12/17/2013 |
| Pages: | 96 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.80(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.60(d) |