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  • Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain

    Stories

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    A stunning debut from an award-winning poet.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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Inseminating the Elephant

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "Inseminating the Elephant [is] a collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examines popular culture, the limits of the human body, and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience."-Pulitzer Prize finalist citation"These poems are tough and witty."-The New Yorker"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo."-Time Out New YorkA 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • I've Heard the Vultures Singing

    Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself on daring solo skis down the wild slopes of Mount Rainier, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was in her thirties. I've Heard the Vultures Singing is a clear-eyed and brazenly outspoken examination of her life as a person with disabilities ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones

    Selected and New Poems

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "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 ReviewMacArthur Genius Award winner Lucia Perillo is a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    "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, she pulls readers into the beat and whirl of her slyly devastating descriptions."-Booklist"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo. She writes accessible, often funny poems that border on the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain

    Stories

    by Lucia Perillo ...
    Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 19 min

    A stunning debut from an award-winning poetPopulating 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 ... Read more

    $17.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    New & Selected Poems

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  • Sixfold Poetry Winter 2021

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