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]
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]
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] |
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]
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]
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] |