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.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Did this really happen?
Salon asked writers to list their favorite books of 2012. Junot Díaz picked Slow Lightning. Here's what he said:
Best book of the year is without question Eduardo C. Corral’s Yale Younger Prize winning collection “Slow Lightning.” I carried this book with me across the country and back and it’s here with me in this high cold place I’ve found myself. The border, the agonies of the migrant, how love vanishes before it can even begin its extraordinary life, the New America that is unfolding at the edges of our cities, a young man’s awakening dreams — they’re all here, cast in magnificent subtleties. The collection’s title is both understatement and a promise — Corral’s genius moves through like a force that is part wave, part current. Irresistible.
Here's the complete list.
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