Luck Is Luck: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award)

Luck Is Luck: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award)
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From the snowy egret to a womanâ€™s floating rib, nudism in America to Holy Communion, Simone de Beauvoir to Nathanâ€™s hot dogsâ€“the subjects in Lucia Perilloâ€™s fourth collection of poetry lift off from surprising places and touch down on new ground. Hers is a vision like no other. In â€œTo My Big Nose,â€ she muses: â€œhard to imagine what the world would have looked like / if not seen through your pink shadow. / You who are built from random parts / like a mythical creatureâ€“a gryphon or sphinxâ€“.â€

Fearless, focused, ironic, irreverent, truly and deeply felt, the poems in Luck Is Luck draw upon the circumstances of being a woman, the harsh realities of nature, the comfort of familiar things, and universally recognizable anxieties about faith and grief, love and desire. In â€œLanguedoc,â€ she writes, â€œLong ago / I might have been attracted by your tights and pantaloons / but now they just look silly, ditto for your instrument / that looks like a gourd with strings attached / (the problem is always the strings attached).â€

Perilloâ€™s versions of nature are always unflinching: â€œMost days back then I would walk by the shrike tree, / a dead hawthorn at the base of a hill. / The shrike had pinned smaller birds on the treeâ€™s black thorns / and the sun had stripped them of their feathers. / . . . well, hard luck is luck, nonetheless. / With a chunk of sky in each eye socket. / And the pierced heart strung up like a pearl.â€

Down-to-earth, full of playful twists of language, and woven from grand themes in an accessible, appealing way, these poems pierce the heart and delight the mind. Not one word is wasted.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2005-03-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400063239

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2005-03-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400063239

Luck Is Luck: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award)

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