Rigoberto blogs about The Heart That Lies Outside The Body by Stephanie Lenox, a chapbook published by SLAPERING HOL PRESS.
I've read with Stephanie in the past. I like her work. I was excited to see her chapbook at AWP. I was all ready to fork over money to buy it. But then I saw that Charles Jensen was one of the blurbers. WFT? I like Mr. Jensen. But isn't it too early for him blurb a chapbook? I didn't buy the chapbook. I just couldn't.
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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Stephanie invited me to blurb her chapbook. She and I met every week for about a year and worked on poems together. If you weren't turned off from buying my chapbook, you'd see me thank her in the acknowledgments. It's unfortunate that you'd let a blurb stand in the way of reading someone's work, especially someone with her talent...
I do hope this was an attempt at sarcasm, Eduardo. Because it doesn't come across that way.
Once eduardo publishes his own book, or chapbook even, then maybe he'll be a little more classy about such matters. Until then, every glass of wine that comes before him will taste like sour grapes.
I was really just curious as to how many book, chapbooks, prizes, publications, etc. one needs, in Eduardo's estimation, to blurb someone's book. Personally, I'd be thrilled to have a blurb from Charlie...as anyone should.
Collin,
I already have my blurbers lined up for my first book. All are Nobel winners. Well, except for Jesus. He's got no Nobel. But Jesus is cool anyways.
Now, I just got to get a book.
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