Together, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of emotions, the way they pull in directions that often cancel one another out or twist their subjects into knots. In lyrical prose, Perillo draws on her training as a naturalist and a poet to map the terrain of the comic and the tragic, asking how we draw the boundaries between these two zones/5(17). · Together, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of emotions, the way they pull in directions that often cancel one another out or twist their subjects into knots. In lyrical prose, Perillo draws on her training as a naturalist and a poet to map the terrain of the comic and the tragic, asking how we draw the boundaries between these two www.doorway.run description: Reprint. · Together, Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain is a sharp-edged, witty testament to the ambivalence of emotions, the way they pull in directions that often cancel one another out or twist their subjects into knots/5(7).
A former MacArthur fellow, Perillo lived in Olympia, Washington with her husband. Lucia Perillo published five books of poetry. Perillo graduated from McGill University in Montreal in with a major in wildlife management and subsequently worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She completed her M.A. in English at Syracuse University. Read free book excerpt from Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain by Lucia Perillo, page 2 of 3. Perillo has also written both fiction and nonfiction. Her book of essays, I've Heard the Vultures Singing, was published by Trinity University Press. In , she also published a book of short stories Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain (Norton) and a book of poems Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon Press.
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