{"product_id":"corral-eduardo-slow-light","title":"Corral, Eduardo: Slow Lightning","description":"\u003cp\u003eYale, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 03, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \"[Corral] packs many, many lines with sharp, sensual, specific imagery--this is Technicolor poetry.\"--Booklist\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Corral is a writer that cares both for the poetic line, but also for the bodies that he writes about, for family, legacy, culture, and what it means to be American. I go to this book again and again, and to me, it's a masterpiece.\"--Ocean Vuong, NPR Morning Edition\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. The first Latino poet to win the competition, Corral is also winner of the 2011 Whiting Writers Award.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeamlessly braiding English and Spanish, Corral's poems hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience. He employs a range of forms and phrasing, bringing the vivid particulars of his experiences as a Chicano and gay man to the page. Although Corral's topics are decidedly sobering, contest judge Carl Phillips observes, \"one of the more surprising possibilities offered in these poems is joy.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom \"Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI'm a cowboy\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eriding bareback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy soul is\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewhirling\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eabove my head like a lasso.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy right hand\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ea pistol. My left\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eautomatic. I'm knocking\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon every door.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eI'm coming on strong . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679353352215,"sku":"9780300178937","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/9780300178937-us.jpg?v=1698446591","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/corral-eduardo-slow-light","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}