Declan Ryan in Exegesis :
Corral writes with a
self exposing candour increasingly uncommon in much modern British poetry not
only successfully, but triumphantly. Corral’s poems share some common,
life-writing ground with the ‘Confessionals’, especially the suffering Robert
Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass. Sentiment has become anathema in much poetry produced
in the UK, with ironic or ludic modes of writing now approaching something of a
‘mainstream’ house-style. It’s hard to think of a British poet who would dare
write lines with the grace, tenderness, and affecting quality of some of
Corral’s best, such as ‘Too poor to afford lilies,/she walked down the aisle
holding a glass of milk’, or ‘Once a man offered me his heart like a glass of
water.’
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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