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In Inseminating The Elephant, Macarthur Fellow Lucia Perillo Delivers Hard-edged Yet Vulnerable Poems That Attempt To Reconcile The Comic Impulse With The Complications And Tragedies Of Living In The Actual, Eating-and-breathing Body--what She Calls The Meat Cage. With Deft Precision, Perillo Dissects Human Failings And Sexuality, As Well As The Relentless Collision Of Nature With The Manufactured World. Whether Recalling Her Training As A Biologist Who Experimented On Birds And Coyotes, Wondering At Animal Impulses, Or Simply Watching Birds From Her Wheelchair, She Draws The Reader Into Unforgettable Poems Rich In Image And Story. Virtue Is The Best Helmet -- Found Object -- Rebuttal -- Dona -- A Romance -- Notes From My Apprenticeship -- Two Of The Furies -- Juárez -- Incubus -- First Epistle Of Lucia To Her Old Boyfriends -- Raised Not By Wolves -- Amphicar -- Job Site, 1967 -- Wormhole Theory -- Avoidance Behavior -- Postcard From Florida -- Transcendentalism -- Final Leap -- January/macy's/the Bra Event -- Odor Ode -- Viagra -- The Van With The Plane -- Snowstorm With Inmates And Dogs -- Early Cascade -- Twenty-five Thousand Volts Per Inch -- Tsunami Museum, Hilo -- Driving Ho

Author

Lucia Maria Perillo

Publisher

Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556592959

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.93 / 5 (128 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13