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Lucia Perillo

American poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet.[1]

In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program.[2]

Life and career

Perillo was born in Manhattan on September 30, 1958[3] and grew up in Irvington.[4]

Her work appeared in The New Yorker,[5] The Atlantic and The Kenyon Review,[6] among other magazines. A traditional poet of mostly free-verse personal reflection, she wrote extensively about living with multiple sclerosis in her poems and essays.[7] Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones was her last book of poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her 2012 collection of short fiction, Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain, was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She died on October 16, 2016, in Olympia, Washington, aged 58.[4][8]

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Awards

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Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Dangerous life. Northeastern University Press. 1989.
  • The Body Mutinies. Purdue University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-55753-083-7.
  • The Oldest Map with the Name America: New and Selected Poems. Random House. 1999. ISBN 978-0-375-50160-9.
  • Luck is luck: poems. Random House, Inc. 2005. ISBN 9781400063239.
  • Inseminating the Elephant. Copper Canyon Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55659-291-1.
  • On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths. Copper Canyon Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-55659-397-0.
  • Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones. Copper Canyon Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-55659-473-1
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Non-fiction

Fiction

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