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Lucia Perillo


Died
October 16, 2016

Genre
Poetry


Lucia Perillo published five books of poetry. Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1979 with a major in wildlife management and subsequently worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her M.A. in English at Syracuse University, and taught at Saint Martin's College, and in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University. Her work appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Kenyon Review. Luck Is Luck was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and won the Kingsley Tufts Prize. A former MacArthur fellow, Perillo lived in Olympia, Washington with her husband. ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 1,306 ratings · 190 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors
Happiness Is a Chemical in ...
3.43 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions
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On the Spectrum of Possible...
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Inseminating the Elephant
3.87 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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Luck Is Luck: Poems
4.13 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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I've Heard the Vultures Sin...
4.11 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Body Mutinies
4.17 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Time Will Clean the Carcass...
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The Oldest Map with the Nam...
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Dangerous Life
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“Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat?
Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?”
― Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck: Poems
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“It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .”
― Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck: Poems
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“I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.”
― Lucia Perillo, Luck Is Luck: Poems
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