An unflinching and gritty book from MacArthur Fellow and winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award.

Macarthur Fellow Lucia Perillo is the author of four books of poetry which have won the Norma Farber First Book Award, the Kate Tufts prize, the Balcones Prize, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Her memoir, I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature, was published in 2007.