{"product_id":"slow-lightning-yale-series-of-younger-poets-106-9780300178937","title":"Slow lightning Yale series of younger poets 106","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnouncing the newest winner of the oldest annual literary prize in the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Corral] seamlessly blends English and Spanish in \u003ci\u003eSlow Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Craig Morgan Teicher, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2011 Whiting Writers Award, as given by the Whiting Foundation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2012 \u003ci\u003ePublishing Triangle\u003c\/i\u003e Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonorable Mention, Poetry category at the 2013 New York Book Festival sponsored by JM Northern Media LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036942205271,"sku":"9780300178937","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300178937.jpg?v=1750933119","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slow-lightning-yale-series-of-younger-poets-106-9780300178937","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}