{"product_id":"9781556592911","title":"Inseminating the Elephant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Poetry\u003cbr\u003e  2010 Bobbitt Prize Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eInseminating the Elephant\u003c\/i\u003e [is] a collection of poems, often laced with humor, that examines popular culture, the limits of the human body, and the tragicomic aspects of everyday experience.\"—Pulitzer Prize finalist citation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are tough and witty.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whoever told you poetry isn't for everyone hasn't read Lucia Perillo.\"—\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist, \u003ci\u003eInseminating the Elephant\u003c\/i\u003e delivers hard-edged yet vulnerable poems that reconcile the comic impulse with the complications and tragedies of living in the eating and breathing body—what Lucia Perillo calls the \"meat cage.\" Perillo dissects human failings and sexuality, as well as collisions between nature and the manufactured world, to create an unforgettable poetic vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow the zoologists start\u003cbr\u003eis by facing the mirror of her flanks,\u003cbr\u003ethat foreboding luscious place where the gray hide\u003cbr\u003egives way to a zeroing-in of skin as vulnerable as an orchid.\u003cbr\u003eWhich is the place to enter, provided you are brave,\u003cbr\u003ebrave enough to insert your laser-guided camera\u003cbr\u003eto avoid the two false openings of her \"vestibule,\"\u003cbr\u003emuch like the way of entering death, of giving birth to death,\u003cbr\u003ecalling it forth as described in the Tibetan Book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046748700912,"sku":"9781556592911","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556592911_p0.jpg?v=1763761481","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556592911","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}