Collins’ debut collection is a labyrinth of canny insights and domestic interiors which reveal the speaker’s elaborate methodologies of hiding and self-exposure. Caustic and pithy indeed, as Louise Glück praises in the foreword, but the persona herein often strikes the reader as more defenseless than arch.
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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Just ordered this book from Powells!
By the way--a glimpse of my pictures (and a glimpse is a lot, to warn you) from Bread Loaf are up on my "Independent Study" blog. I'll follow with a more complete set on Flickr.
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