National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Blas Manuel De Luna is taking a poll to gauge his post-ceremony mood. His book lost out to Jack Gilbert’s Refusing Heaven. Is he blue? Neither here or there. Generally Bemused. Or is it time to hide the knives?
Vote! I voted twice!
About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
4 comments:
Apparently I missed his reading in NYC. I had to work. :(
But I did vote: Neither Here nor There.
I vote for Jack Gilbert!
T - It's a better book, yes. Jack deserves it. Good poet.
& great for Blas - that's a fine book, too - but Jack's is better - that would have been my vote
Am I the only one who thought Jack Gilbert's book was so-so at best? More of the same, less of the fire, it just sort of limps along.
Monolithos and The Great Fires are brilliant, but Refusing Heaven, ehh, not so much, IMHO.
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