Luck Is Luck Poems

Perillo, Lucia

ISBN 10: 140006323X / ISBN 13: 9781400063239

Published by Random House, New York, 2005

About this Item

Full number line. ; Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; 98 pages. Seller Inventory # 31355

Bibliographic Details

Title: Luck Is Luck Poems

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

A new compilation of poetry by the MacArthur Award-winning poet includes such irreverent, down-to-earth, and witty works as "To My Big Nose," "What I Wondered About Nuns," "Poems Without Breasts," "On the High Suicide Rate of Dentists, and "For the First Clone, Aging Now and Largely Forgotten." 20,000 first printing.

About the Author:

LUCIA PERILLO, a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, has published three previous collections: The Oldest Map with the Name America, The Body Mutinies, for which she won the PEN/Revson Foundation Poetry Fellowship and several other awards, and Dangerous Life, which received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, the Atlantic, and The Kenyon Review. They also have been included in the Pushcart and Best American Poetry anthologies.