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I have two words for anyone who wants to know why people turn to poetry... Lucia Perillo."-The New York Times

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Populating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo's story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them and are surprised when the world comes roaring back. An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and the people who sell them door-to-door. An abandoned woman seeks consolation in tales of armed robbery told by one of her fellow suburban housewives. An accidenta...

An unflinching and gritty book from MacArthur Fellow and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award.

I have two words for anyone who wants to know why people turn to poetry...Lucia Perillo.” -New York Times

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

I have two words for anyone who wants to know why people turn to poetry...Lucia Perillo.”—The New York Times

Keine Beschreibung.

I have two words for anyone who wants to know why people turn to poetry...Lucia Perillo." -New York Times

In poems that are at once colloquial and elegant, Perillo strives to bridge the gap between the exuberant voice of the streets and the rarefied voice of literary tradition. Using the long lines and narrative style that have been identified with some of the finest male poets of our times, Perillo tells the stories of female experience with a grim eye for the comic and an ear turned to language's highest pitch.

An unflinching and gritty book from MacArthur Fellow and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award.