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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Does anyone else find this ridiculous? I mean, why all the self-pity from someone who has won a Guggenheim? Maybe the tone is supposed to be sarcastic, but I read it as whiny. Other thoughts?
yeah, it's supposed to be funny. it's a pretty crappy imitation of lorrie moore's "how to be a writer."
Hi,
I do, too. Even though she attempts to deflate the self-pity with the closure which feels pat and uninspired.
Why didn't she add: Befriend a more sincere, working class poet named Dorianne Laux. Attach yourself to her in every way possible. Co-author a lame pedagogical manual with her that desperate poets like her will by. Poets who will not have the connections you have, because of your "quirkiness" and need to make a spectacle of yourself at AWP by wearing a feather boa.
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