{"product_id":"on-the-spectrum-of-possible-lucia-perillo-9781556594151","title":"On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"100 Notable Books of the Year\" selection; \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \"Top 10 Poetry Book of the Year\"; winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for Poetry; and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Perillo has long lived with, and written about, her struggle with debilitating multiple sclerosis. Her bracing sixth book of poems takes an unflinching, though not unsmiling, look at mortality.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003ci\u003eOn the Spectrum of Possible Deaths\u003c\/i\u003e are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Victor the Shaman\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI feel the need for more humanitybecause the winter wren is not enough, even with its complicated music emanating\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom the brambles. So I relent to my friendwho keeps bugging me to see her shaman, tutored by the Indians who live at the base\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eof Monte Albán. Tutored also by the heavy bagat Sonny's Gym: \u003c\/i\u003eBox like heaven \/ Fight like hell\u003ci\u003ehis T-shirt says; the graphic shows an angel's fist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eburied to the wrist in Satan's brisket, while the princeof dark jabs the angel's kisser . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucia Perillo\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal, completed her MA in English at Syracuse University, and for most of the 1990s she taught in the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University. She currently resides in Olympia, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucia Perillo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556594151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556594151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.80w x 0.40d","brand":"Lucia Perillo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372415144191,"sku":"9781556594151","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3270112e-8a54-4b89-a217-c98e367bd3fb.jpg?v=1732725879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-the-spectrum-of-possible-lucia-perillo-9781556594151","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}