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Lucia Perillo Quotes

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

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

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

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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