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Perillo, Lucia, 1958-2016 author.

Time will clean the carcass bones : selected and new poems / Lucia Perillo.

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]

ix, 239 pages ; 24 cm

""Perillo's poetic persona is funny, tough, bold, smart, and righteous. A spellbinding storyteller and a poet who makes the demands of the form seem as natural as a handshake."--Booklist"The poems [are] taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."--The New York Times Book ReviewMacArthur Genius Award winner Lucia Perillo is a fearless poet who, with characteristic humor and incisive irony, confronts the failings and wonder of nature, particularly the frail and resilient human body. This generous collection draws upon five previous volumes, including books selected as a New York Times "100 Notable Books of the Year" and as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From "Again, the Body":When you spend many hours alone in a roomyou have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself--this is the problem of the body, not that it is mortalbut that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught usdo not touch it, but who can keep from touching it, from scratching off the juicy scab? ... Lucia Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal 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 eight books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She was a MacArthur Fellow and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Olympia, Washington"-- Provided by publisher.

Poetry, American.

Poems. Selections

Machine generated contents note: The News (A Manifesto) -- First Job/Seventeen -- Dangerous Life -- The Revelation -- How Western Underwear Came to Japan -- Skin -- Inseminator Man -- Tripe -- At St. Placid's -- The Roots of Pessimism in Model Rocketry, the Fallacy of Its Premise -- The Body Mutinies -- Kilned -- Women Who Sleep on Stones -- Compulsory Travel -- Limits -- Needles -- Monorail -- Cairn for Future Travel -- Beige Trash -- Foley -- Air Guitar -- Pomegranate -- Crash Course in Semiotics -- Serotonin -- Lament in Good Weather -- The Oldest Map with the Name America -- Home -- The Salmon underneath the City -- The Ghost Shirt -- To My Big Nose -- Languedoc -- The Crows Start Demanding Royalties -- On the Destruction of the Mir -- Le dewcieme sexe -- The Floating Rib -- Original Sin -- The Cardinal's Nephews -- White Bird/Black Drop -- On the High Suicide Rate of Dentists -- Freshwater and Salt -- In the Confessional Mode, with a Borrowed Movie Trope -- Fubar -- Bulletin from Somewhere up the Creek -- Urban Legend -- A Simple Camp Song -- from Book of Bob -- My Eulogy Was Deemed Too Strange -- Conscription Papers -- Night Festival, Olympia -- Eulogy from the Boardwalk behind the KFC -- Shrike Tree -- Chum -- Virtue Is the Best Helmet -- Found Object -- Rebuttal -- A Romance -- From Notes from My Apprenticeship -- Incubus -- First Epistle of Lucia to Her Old Boyfriends -- Raised Not by Wolves -- Job Site, 1967 -- Postcard from Florida -- Transcendentalism -- January/Macy's/The Bra Event -- The Van with the Plane -- Snowstorm with Inmates and Dogs -- Early Cascade -- Twenty-Five Thousand Volts per Inch -- The Garbo Cloth -- A Pedantry -- Martha -- Breaking News -- For the First Crow with West Nile Virus to Arrive in Our State -- Altered Beast -- On the Chehalis River -- Inseminating the Elephant -- For the Mad Cow in Tenino -- The Second Slaughter -- Again, the Body -- To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall -- Domestic -- I Could Name Some Names -- Cold Snap, November -- Auntie Roach -- Wheel -- Pioneer -- 300D -- Lubricating the Void -- Freak-Out -- Maypole -- Les Dauphins -- The Unturning -- Bats -- This Red T-Shirt -- The Wolves of Illinois -- Pharaoh -- Samara -- Daisies vs. Bees -- Bruce -- Blacktail -- The Great Wave -- Water Theory -- Elegy for Idle Curiosity -- Belated Poem in the Voice of the Pond -- Early December, Two Weeks Shy -- *Speckled and Silver -- My Only Objection -- FREE -- Eschatological -- A Little Death, Suitable for Framing -- Etiology of My Illness -- Rotator Cuff Vortex -- Message Unscripted -- Women in Black -- The Rape of Blanche DuBois -- What I Know -- Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones -- Yellow Claw -- Day-Moon.

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