Lucia Perillo 's sixth book of poems, On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths (Copper Canyon, 2012), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. Her other publications include a book of stories, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain (Norton, 2012), and one of essays, I've Heard the Vultures Singing (Trinity University Press, 2009). Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon, 2009) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Other poems by Lucia Perillo in Verse Daily:
June 25, 2012:   "Black Transit" "Trees bare. Days short. And at dusk..."
March 31, 2011:   "To the Field of Scotch Broom That Will Be Buried by the New Wing of the Mall" "Half costume jewel, half parasite, you stood..."
June 15, 2010:   "Hokkaido" "War Emblem, the famous stallion..."
April 13, 2009:   "Inseminating the Elephant" "The zoologists who came from Germany..."
January 19, 2009:   "Altered Beast" "You were a man and I used to be a woman..."
May 31, 2005:  "Chum" ""How come we all don't have the luxury of our ghosts..."
July 3, 2003:  "A Simple Campsong" "In the days of yore, three handsome drunks..."

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Other poems on the web by Lucia Perillo:
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