| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) |
| Note |
Published Aug. 25, 2009--Cf. Amazon.com. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212). |
| Contents |
A glimpse -- Knowledge game: Gulls -- Definition of terms -- Medicine -- Job versus Prometheus -- Inside/outside -- A cripple in the wilderness -- Fear of the market -- Knowledge game: Bats -- Brief history of my thumb -- Bonnie without Clyde : the romance of being bad -- Sick fuck -- Two-man boat -- Knowledge game: Birdsong -- On solitude -- From the Bardo zone. |
| Summary |
Poet Lucia Perillo, who once worked as a park ranger and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her thirties, confronts the ironies of going from an outdoors person to someone who can no longer walk in this memoir. Among other topics, these essays explore how poetry provides an alternative means of accessing nature--Cf. publisher. |
| Biography |
Poet Lucia Perillo was a park ranger in the Cascade Mountains before multiple sclerosis took its toll on her body, and wilderness and nature are frequent themes in her writing. She was also a teacher, and taught at Saint Martin's College [now Saint Martin's University], Southern Illinois University, Syracuse University, and Warren Wilson. She now lives in Olympia, Washington. Her writing has garnered the Kate Tufts Award, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Norma Farber Award, a Washington Book Award plus fellowships from the PEN/Revson Foundation and the prestigious MacArthur Foundation. To date, Perillo has published six books of poetry, a memoir, and a collection of short stories. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Perillo, Lucia, 1958-2016
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Perillo, Lucia Maria, 1958- (OCoLC)fst01491446
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American -- Washington (State) -- Biography.
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Multiple sclerosis -- Patients -- Washington (State) -- Biography.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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Multiple sclerosis -- Patients.
(OCoLC)fst01029031
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Poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01067794
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Washington (State) (OCoLC)fst01204703
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Perillo, Lucia Maria, 1958- I've heard the vultures singing. San Antonio : Trinity University Press, 2009, ©2007 1595340580 (DLC) 2007003686 (OCoLC)422876707 |
| ISBN |
9781595340924 (electronic bk.) |
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1595340920 (electronic bk.) |
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