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. In unwavering and witty prose, and without a trace of self-pity, she contemplates the bitter ironies of being unable to walk, what it s like to experience eros as a sick person, how to lower one...
Acclaimed poet and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Lucia Perillo, a former park ranger who loved to hike the Cascade Mountains alone and prided herself o...
A "New York Times Book Review" "100 Notable Books of the Year" selection; "Publishers Weekly" "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.
"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.""Publishers Weekly," starred review
"The poems in "On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths" are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional...
A "New York Times Book Review" "100 Notable Books of the Year" selection; "Publishers Weekly" "Top 10 Poetry Book of the Year"; winner of the Pacif...
