Description
Book SynopsisAnnouncing the newest winner of the oldest annual literary prize in the United States
Trade Review“[Corral] seamlessly blends English and Spanish in
Slow Lightning.”—Craig Morgan Teicher,
Publishers WeeklyWinner of the 2011 Whiting Writers Award, as given by the Whiting Foundation
Finalist for the 2012
Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Honorable Mention, Poetry category at the 2013 New York Book Festival sponsored by JM Northern Media LLC
“[W]e can make of what would blind us a conduit for changed vision, suggests Corral. In these poems, a cage implies all the rest that lies outside it; any frame frames a window through which to see other possibilities unfolding. . . . Like Hayden, Corral resists reductivism. Gay, Chicano, ‘Illegal-American,’ that’s all just language, and part of Corral’s point is that language, like sex, is fluid and dangerous and thrilling, now a cage, now a window out. In Corral’s refusal to think in reductive terms lies his great authority. His refusal to entirely trust authority wins my trust as a reader.”—Carl Phillips, from the Foreword
