On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths

For the hardback edition of Spectrum of Possible Deaths:

100 Notable Books of 2012, The New York Times Book Review. It was one of only 2 poetry titles to make the list.

2013 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Associations Award for Poetry

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist (Note: announcement of NBCC winner is Feb 28, 2013–if Perillo wins, we will go immediately to paperback)

Full-page reviews in New York Times Book Review and The Nation

For previous Perillo titles:

Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2009

Winner of the Bobbitt Prize from the Library of Congress

Macarthur Genius Fellowship

Perillo 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

Copper Canyon is committed to bringing all of Perillo’s back in print

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