{"product_id":"10-20-26-palacios-gabriel-lunar-hilton-elegy","title":"[10\/20\/26] Palacios, Gabriel: Lunar Hilton Elegy","description":"\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Iowa Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 20, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDefining what Gabriel Palacios terms the \"vaporpoem,\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLunar Hilton Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emoves through the artifacts of a boyhood suspended in the neon-noir dusk of 1989--home-taped\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVideo Soul\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ebroadcasts, dead-mall architecture, late-night cable access--treating the past not as a home to return to, but as an improvised shelter against the present's digital weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLunar Hilton Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003easks what remains of the American myth when its \"freshly planted tracts\" resolve into blue photonic mist. At once darkly comic and urgently elegiac, Palacios offers a report from the threshold of the still-buffering all-at-once--or, more precisely, a lost-and-found sunbaked cassette of that report, still playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The most surprising aspect of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLunar Hilton Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is that it isn't so much an elegy to a lost world as a mesmeric topology of the world we presently inhabit--an eroded agriscape pitted with debt, where shelter is approximated by bombed-out, derealized Red Roof Inns and Airbnbs thick with half-mutant Pomeranians. Like a notebook disintegrating in a glyphosate rain, these poems are remarkable for their gentle unwirings and startling preservations, for the intimacies and recognitions Palacios's speaker attends with his human, deweaponized eye.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--Joyelle McSweeney, author, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath Styles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45479595180055,"sku":"9781685970956","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/Palacios_HRCvr.jpg?v=1788392413","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/10-20-26-palacios-gabriel-lunar-hilton-elegy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}