A review by foggy_rosamund
On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths by Lucia Perillo

3.0

Perillo's poetry loses points for me because her style often feels prosaic, and some of the poems feel too loose and too choppy. But overall, I enjoyed this collection a lot: Perillo writes about nature in an imaginative and fresh way: showing how nature exists on the boundaries of our cities, how pollution and natural beauty exist side by side, and the inevitability of decay and death. Her poems are morbid but never maudlin: death and illness are part of our lives, and exist in her poetry within the wilderness.