Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556594739 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorLucia Perillo: Lucia Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She was a MacArthur Fellow in 2000 and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. She lives in Olympia, Washington.. She completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and has published five books of poetry
This book is guaranteed to wake you up! Lucia Perillo opens our hearts and takes us to places we may or may not have been. Prepare for a journey of insight, compassion, and our deepest human emotions. Thank you Lucia, for this fabulous book!
They will also find familiar themes: the delights of nature, the frailty of the physical world and the many ways the human body lets people down. Humor is actually the key to the power of her poems."The Los Angeles Times"The poems are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."The New York Times Book Review”Lucia Perillo’s Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: New and Selected Poems is a significant retrospective that includes work from her six previous books Fans will recognize her signature styleaccessible, attuned to the small dramas in people’s lives, and at times witheringly funny. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake."Booklist"For a poet obsessed with the steady degradation of the body and looming of death, Lucia Perillo manages to be highly entertaining. Perillo’s poems move against the backdrop of her own struggle with multiple sclerosis: If I sleep on my belly, pinning it down,/ my breasts start puling like baby pigs/ trapped under their slab of torpid mother.’ Yet these vivacious poems reveal humor, sexuality, and a sharp sense of im
She was a MacArthur Fellow in 2000 and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. Lucia Perillo: Lucia Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management, and subsequently worked for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and has published five books of poetry. She lives in Olympia, Washington.