The Body Mutinies
The Body Mutinies by Lucia Perillo, published by Purdue University Press in 1996, is a collection of poetry that spans 91 pages. This first edition presents a unique exploration of the body’s experiences, addressing themes often left unspoken, such as illness, death, and sexuality. Perillo’s work captures a diverse array of subjects, including rock climbers, women who confront danger, and those who navigate the complexities of survival.
Readers will find that the poems in this collection blend colloquial language with a refined literary style, creating a dialogue between everyday experiences and traditional poetic forms. Perillo’s narrative approach allows her to convey the multifaceted nature of female experience, often with a blend of humor and poignancy. The collection invites readers to engage with the complexities of bodily existence, reflecting on both the triumphs and challenges faced by women.
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The poems in The Body Mutinies bring speech to those accomplishments of the body that are most often relegated to silence, though in Perillo’s usage “accomplishments” may include illness, death, and certainly sex. Her textual landscape includes rock climbers and the ill, female killers who take to the road and women who survive by climbing out of burning buildings, even though in the process they’re forced to let modesty fly to the wind. In poems that are at once colloquial and elegant, Perillo strives to bridge the gap between the exuberant voice of the streets and the rarefied voice of literary tradition. Using the long lines and narrative style that have been identified with some of the finest male poets of our times, Perillo tells the stories of female experience with a grim eye for the comic and an ear turned to language’s highest pitch.
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