In talking to people, I think the chapbook has been slightly misread as being largely an urban piece. Yet many of its poems were triggered by events that occurred in suburbia. So I realized that I need to code certain poems a bit clearer. It might, however, be a result of being a product of the Chicago area. It’s an unusual city, perhaps, in that the suburb and city limits butt right up against each other and interweave at certain points. No major waterways or landmasses separate the two. So I suppose it’s possible to live in the outer rim of Chicago and have a suburban sensibility, and it’s possible to witness things in certain Chicago suburbs that most people would associate with urban phenomena.
*Tip of the hat to Bino. He knows why.
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My interview with Aaron Smith will be reposted soon. We're working out a few glitches. And wait to you see his author photo. So cute.
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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Thanks for posting the link to the interview, Eduardo. I'm teaching Pepper Spray this afternoon, and I'll tell my students about it. thanks!
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