i heard franz wright read last night at arizona state. he read a bit from wheeling motel and a bit from walking to martha's vineyard and he read a few new poems but my favorite pieces were the new prose poems/ paragrapsh he's been working on. they are strange but familiar. they are expansive but narrow. they contain heart-stopping lyrical moments. listening to him read them, i felt like i was walking through a haunted house filled with trap doors -- each time i fell through a trap door i was funneled back to the front door where i had no choice but to step through the threshold again.
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arizona state's campus has changed a lot. new buldings everywhere! i hardly recognized it!
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i paid six bucks for three hours of parking. thanks a lot, sun devils.
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i want to buy the denim jacket franz wright was wearing. he looked so chic. and i want to look chic, too!
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it was nice saying hello again to beckian fritz goldberg, alberto rios and sean nevin.
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i noticed that a lot of students bought his books. it was wonderful to see a young man carrying a book a poems and a skateboard.
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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 really like Franz Wright's work, but have never seen him in person.
I love this--
i paid six bucks for three hours of parking. thanks a lot, sun devils.
Ha!
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