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Perillo read for the [[O.B. Hardison Poetry Series ]] on December 14, 2010 for the [[Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute]].
[[File:Lucia Perillo Dickinson Birthday (2010).jpg|260px|right|thumb|Lucia Perillo.]]
 
Perillo's searing honesty combined with wit and gracious talent makes her work not only fun but also enlightening. Perillo has published five books of poetry, most recently ''Inseminating the Elephant'', which was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, and ''Luck is Luck'', which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was included in the New York Public Library's "Books to Remember" for 2005. A book of her essays, ''I've Heard the Vultures Singing'', was published in 2008. A former MacArthur fellow, she lives in Olympia, Washington.
 
Visit her [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lucia-perillo Poetry Foundation] page for more information.
 
===From ''Number One''===
Animal attack is Number One in the list called
 
"Ways in Which I Do Not Want to Die" -
 
wait, Ben says knock it off with the death-talk;
 
you've already talked death to death.
 
But the Number Ones don't need our speech
 
to claim their cool dark storage place: my sister said
 
hers was falling down the stairs, after her husband left
 
and every riser turned into El Capitan.
From ''Inseminating the Elephant'' by Lucia Perill. Copyright 2009 by Lucia Perillo, published by Copper Canyon Press. Used with permission.
 
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Latest revision as of 14:54, 17 July 2014

Perillo read for the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series on December 14, 2010 for the Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute.

Lucia Perillo.

Perillo's searing honesty combined with wit and gracious talent makes her work not only fun but also enlightening. Perillo has published five books of poetry, most recently Inseminating the Elephant, which was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, and Luck is Luck, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was included in the New York Public Library's "Books to Remember" for 2005. A book of her essays, I've Heard the Vultures Singing, was published in 2008. A former MacArthur fellow, she lives in Olympia, Washington.

Visit her Poetry Foundation page for more information.

From Number One

Animal attack is Number One in the list called

"Ways in Which I Do Not Want to Die" -

wait, Ben says knock it off with the death-talk;

you've already talked death to death.


But the Number Ones don't need our speech

to claim their cool dark storage place: my sister said

hers was falling down the stairs, after her husband left

and every riser turned into El Capitan.

From Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia Perill. Copyright 2009 by Lucia Perillo, published by Copper Canyon Press. Used with permission.