{"product_id":"luck-is-luck-poems","title":"Luck Is Luck: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLuck Is Luck: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLucia Perillo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781400063239\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRandom House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e98\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFrom the snowy egret to a woman's floating rib, nudism in America to Holy Communion, Simone de Beauvoir to Nathan's hot dogs-the subjects in Lucia Perillo's fourth collection of poetry lift off from surprising places and touch down on new ground. Hers is a vision like no other. In To My Big Nose, she muses: hard 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 creature-a gryphon or sphinx-, 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 Languedoc, she writes, Long 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). Perillo's versions of nature are always unflinching: Most 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 tree'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. 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Luck Is Luck: Poems | Lucia Perillo | Hardcover | 9781400063239 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1628582","offer_id":50701197279490,"sku":"1628582","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41245ZSZMAL.jpg?v=1791601781","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/luck-is-luck-poems","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}