Lucia Perillo Quotes

• I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.

  Lucia Perillo

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

  Lucia Perillo (2016). “Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems”, p.108, Copper Canyon Press

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• Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
  and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
  like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
  and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
  or a pile of rubble.

  Lucia Perillo

  Italian, Rocks, Names

  Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And to read widely, in a variety of time periods and cultures, to identify which traits of poems are appealing and which aversive. And what can be stolen.

  Lucia Perillo

  Community, Advice, Culture

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