"[Corral] seamlessly blends English and Spanish in Slow Lightning."-Craig Morgan Teicher, Publishers Weekly -- Craig Morgan Teicher Publishers Weekly "He mixes colloquial Spanish and English, and he packs many, many lines with sharp, sensual, specific imagery-this is Technicolor poetry... Very engaging."-Ray Olson, Booklist -- Ray Olson Booklist "A classic in the making."-Rigoberto Gonzalez, El Paso Times -- Rigoberto Gonzalez El Paso Times "By any standard, Slow Lightning is an impressive debut, a gathering of powerful and often defiant poems that are paradoxically realized through formal control."-Lambda Literary Review Lambda Literary Review
Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition. Seamlessly braiding English and Spanish, Corral's poems hurtle across literary and linguistic borders toward a lyricism that slows down experience. He employs a range of forms and phrasing, bringing the vivid particulars of his experiences as a Chicano and gay man to the page. Although Corral's topics are decidedly sobering, contest judge Carl Phillips observes, "one of the more surprising possibilities offered in these poems is joy". The following poem is from "Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso": I'm a cowboy riding bareback My soul is whirling above my head like a lasso. My right hand a pistol. My left automatic. I'm knocking on every door. I'm coming on strong...
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