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Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones
Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems | Lucia Perillo
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"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 Review MacArthur 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 aNew 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 room you have more than the usual chances to disgust yourself this is the problem of the body, not that it is mortal but that it is mortifying. When we were young they taught us do not touch it, but who can keep from touching it, from scratching off the juicy scab?... Lucia Perillograduated 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.
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IndoorDame
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TheSpineView Lovely poem 2y
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lil1inblue
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TheSpineView Excellant choice! 4y
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Lcsmcat
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TheSpineView 👍😊😍 4y
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Bertha_Mason
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I first read this poem in a college creative writing/literature class (fellow Agnes Scott survivors, say hi to your therapists for me), where it blew my mind. I forgot the title and author until today, and remembered only that final image. How nice of this poem to unearth itself for me ten years later. ☺

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Bertha_Mason

Ugh, the author dropped a g-slur to describe a bad deal. For fuck's sake, what's wrong with just saying "scam"?

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Lcsmcat
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TheSpineView 🤩🤩🤩 5y
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Lcsmcat
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TheSpineView A lot of double meanings in this one. I will have to noodle on this a bit.🤩 5y
Lcsmcat @TheSpineView I like her imagery. And you can‘t beat the title of the collection! 5y
Chrissyreadit Wow! That is a well done poem! 5y
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