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Inseminating the Elephant

Lucia Perillo

Finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

In Inseminating the Elephant, Lucia Perillo explores physical frailty, the ever-diverging world of nature and civilization, sex, aging, and the humbling effect of pain. "[Inseminating the Elephant is]...a collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examine popular culture, the limits of the human body and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience." (Pulitzer). Each line is thread with honesty and vigor: "I roam these rooms lit by twilight’s bulb, / feeling half like Bette Davis in a wheel chair / and half like that Hell’s Angels kingpin with the tracheotomy.” Writing with vulnerability, wit, and compassion, Perillo evokes an austere dignity in this magnificent collection.

 

Binding: cloth

ISBN: 978-55659-291-1