Inseminating the Elephant

* Perillo left Random House to join Copper Canyon * Executive Editor Michael Wiegers never accepted a book faster than this one * Perillo is a Macarthur Genius Fellowship and has been featured on the cover of American Poetry Review * Perillo is the only poet to have won both the Kate Tufts Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award * The biography is of interest: Perillo was a park ranger in the Cascade Mountains and in her 30s she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Now she is in a wheelchair. Many of her poems candidly deal with how she negotiates the disease. Her much-praised nonfiction book, I Heard the Vultures Singing, takes the subject head-on. * The poems are gripping, and it is fair to call this book a page turner.