Lucia Perillo
American poet
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Lucia Maria Perillo (September 30, 1958 – October 16, 2016) was an American poet.[1]
In 2000, Perillo was recognized with a "genius grant" as part of the MacArthur Fellows Program.[2]
Life and career
Perillo was born in Manhattan on September 30, 1958[3] and grew up in Irvington.[4]
Her work appeared in The New Yorker,[5] The Atlantic and The Kenyon Review,[6] among other magazines. A traditional poet of mostly free-verse personal reflection, she wrote extensively about living with multiple sclerosis in her poems and essays.[7] Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones was her last book of poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Her 2012 collection of short fiction, Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain, was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She died on October 16, 2016, in Olympia, Washington, aged 58.[4][8]
Awards
- 1989 Samuel French Morse Award, Northeastern University Press
- 1990 Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America for Dangerous Life
- 1991 PEN/Revson Award, Pen American Center, NY
- Purdue University's Emery Poetry Prize
- 1993 Illinois Arts Council Award for Creative Non-Fiction
- 1994 Finalist, National Poetry Series
- 1995 Verna Emery Poetry Prize, Purdue University Press
- 1995 Iowa Poetry Prize
- 1997 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- 1997 Balcones Prize, Austin Community College for The Body Mutinies
- 1998 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, The Beloit Poetry Journal
- 1998 Pushcart Prize for "Bad Boy Number Seventeen"
- 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program award[9]
- 2003 Pushcart Prize for "Shrike Tree"
- 2005 Pushcart Prize for "In the Confessional Mode"
- 2006 Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- 2010 Washington State Book Award for Inseminating the Elephant[10]
- 2010 Bobbit Prize, Library of Congress for Inseminating the Elephant
- 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry finalist for Inseminating the Elephant
- 2012 WA State Governor's Arts Medal
- 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award finalist for Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain
- 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist for Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Poetry for On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths[11]
- 2013 Shelley Memorial Award
- 2013 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths[12]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Collections
- Dangerous life. Northeastern University Press. 1989.
- The Body Mutinies. Purdue University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-55753-083-7.
- The Oldest Map with the Name America: New and Selected Poems. Random House. 1999. ISBN 978-0-375-50160-9.
- Luck is luck: poems. Random House, Inc. 2005. ISBN 9781400063239.
- Inseminating the Elephant. Copper Canyon Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-55659-291-1.
- On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths. Copper Canyon Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-55659-397-0.
- Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones. Copper Canyon Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-55659-473-1
- List of poems
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacktail | 2014 | "Blacktail". The New Yorker. 90 (24): 33. August 25, 2014. | |
| The News (A Manifesto) | 1986 | "The News (A Manifesto)"[13] Ploughshares Issue 41 Winter 1986 | Dangerous Life (1989), Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones (2016)[14] |
| First Job/Seventeen | 1986 | "First Job/Seventeen" Ploughshares Vol 12, No. 4 1986 | Dangerous Life (1989), Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones (2016)[14] |
| Dangerous Life | 1989 | "Dangerous Life" Dangerous Life 1989[15] | Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones (2016)[14] |
| The Revelation | 1989 | "The Revelation" Dangerous Life 1989[15] | Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones (2016)[14] |
Non-fiction
- I've Heard the Vultures Singing. Trinity University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-59534-031-3.
Fiction
- Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain. W. W. Norton & Company. 2012. ISBN 9780393083538.