Lucia Perillo has published one previous collection, Dangerous Life, which received the Norma Farber award from the Poetry Society of America for the best first book of 1989. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as the Atlantic and the Kenyon Review and have been included in the Pushcart and the Best American Poetry anthologies. In 2000, she earned a MacArthur fellowship. A former park ranger and teacher at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, she now lives in Olympia, Washington.
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Lucia Perillo's poems race flat out. Perillo knows where the accelerator is and what it's for, and she stands on it, puts her whole weight on it. These dazzling and powerful poems hold nothing back. The poet commits herself wholeheartedly to the passions, pleasures, and griefs of a body that is dying and subject to all the violations of a violent world. And when the poems veer almost out of control, she knows how to steer 'into the fishtails' and she knows that 'when everything goes to hell the worst you can do / is hit the brake'"