Slow Lightning by Eduardo C Corral
Announcing the newest winner of the oldest annual literary prize in the United States-
Crush
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What Noise Against the Cane
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Mothman Apologia
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Some Trees
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Frail-Craft
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The Year of Blue Water
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Views of Jeopardy
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Ward Toward
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Shells
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Thrown Voice
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A Crackling Of Thorns
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Ultima Thule
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Icehouse Lights
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Out of the Woods
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One Way to Reconstruct the Scene
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The Yale Younger Poets Anthology
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Natural Histories
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Thinking the World Visible
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Hermit with Landscape
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The Solace Is Not the Lullaby
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Bees, and After
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Hands of the Saddlemaker
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Westerly
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Field Guide
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Simulacra
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Radial Symmetry
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Gathering the Tribes
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Blue Yodel
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The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
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Juvenilia
“[Corral] seamlessly blends English and Spanish in Slow Lightning”—Craig Morgan Teicher, Publishers Weekly
Winner of the 2011 Whiting Writers Award, as given by the Whiting Foundation
Finalist for the 2012 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Honorable Mention, Poetry category at the 2013 New York Book Festival sponsored by JM Northern Media LLC
“[W]e can make of what would blind us a conduit for changed vision, suggests Corral. In these poems, a cage implies all the rest that lies outside it; any frame frames a window through which to see other possibilities unfolding. . . . Like Hayden, Corral resists reductivism. Gay, Chicano, ‘Illegal-American,’ that’s all just language, and part of Corral’s point is that language, like sex, is fluid and dangerous and thrilling, now a cage, now a window out. In Corral’s refusal to think in reductive terms lies his great authority. His refusal to entirely trust authority wins my trust as a reader.”—Carl Phillips, from the Foreword
Winner of the 2011 Whiting Writers Award, as given by the Whiting Foundation
Finalist for the 2012 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Honorable Mention, Poetry category at the 2013 New York Book Festival sponsored by JM Northern Media LLC
“[W]e can make of what would blind us a conduit for changed vision, suggests Corral. In these poems, a cage implies all the rest that lies outside it; any frame frames a window through which to see other possibilities unfolding. . . . Like Hayden, Corral resists reductivism. Gay, Chicano, ‘Illegal-American,’ that’s all just language, and part of Corral’s point is that language, like sex, is fluid and dangerous and thrilling, now a cage, now a window out. In Corral’s refusal to think in reductive terms lies his great authority. His refusal to entirely trust authority wins my trust as a reader.”—Carl Phillips, from the Foreword
Eduardo C. Corral’s poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry, as well as other journals and anthologies. He received a Discovery/The Nation award and was selected for residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He lives in southern Arizona. Carl Phillips is the award-winning author of numerous books of poetry. In 2023 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300178937 |
| ISBN 10 | 030017893X |
| Title | Slow Lightning |
| Author | Eduardo C Corral |
| Series | Yale Series Of Younger Poets |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2012-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2013, Commended for Triangle Awards (Gay Poetry) 2013 |
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