Perdido Format: TradePaperback

In Perdido, Elaine Terranova’ s seventh collection, the poet ponders the predicament of loss— “ I want the dead but I am beside / the living.” But for Terranova, perdido does not mean loss merely. Like the music from which she borrows her term, these poems bound with resilience.

Elaine Terranova is the author of eight poetry collections, including, most recently Rinse (Grid Books, 2023), and two chapbooks. Her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies and her translation of Euripides’   Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama Series. She has received the Walt Whitman Award, an NEA, a Pew Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and in 2024, the Maurice English Poetry Award.