...a beautifully written manuscript which takes all sorts of risks. The first poem reads: "I'm telling you a story of brick and bone…I'm handling their images in my hand/ a series of retablos." And each of its four sections defines the poetic "retablo" in very different ways. This is a manuscript about language and landscape, and how the poet and his companion exist in them and move through them...
the final section is a 28-part poem, 27 days in the "story" of Hurricane Katrina and a postscript, with dates and newspaper headlines followed by short poems that are provocatively different and resonant—some locate us in the devastation of New Orleans; some tell us what's happening, at the same moment, somewhere else; some speak to us in the rhetoric of inept politicians. This is a moving account of home and destruction, where "unrest was the least of it now; our mouths and throats glowed into numbness as we ate.
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.
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I'm looking forward to reading this book. I agree with Diana that the award citation makes the book very appealing. I met him at AWP and he's a very nice guy. I'm happy for him. Oh and thrilled he's from El Paso.
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