Guillotine
Poems
Graywolf · Print & ebook · August 4, 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, the border itself—great distances in which violence and yearning find roots.
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- Who it’s for
- These poems bring border-crossing, grief, and yearning into a vividly lyrical conversation.
- Themes
- Migration and border crossings, Grief and loss, Unrequited love
- Genres
- Hispanic American Poetry, LGBTQ+ Poetry, American Poetry
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY The astonishing second collection by the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, the border itself—great distances in which violence and yearning find roots.
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Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and scorned lovers, award-winning poet Eduardo C. Corral writes dramatic portraits of contradiction, survival, and a deeply human, relentless interiority. With extraordinary lyric imagination, these poems wonder about being unwanted or renounced. What do we do with unrequited love? Is it with or without it that we would waste away? In the sequence “Testaments Scratched into Water Station Barrels,” with Corral’s seamless integration of Spanish and English, poems curve around the surfaces upon which they are written, overlapping like graffiti left by those who may or may not have survived crossing the border. A harrowing second collection, Guillotine solidifies Corral’s place in the expanding ecosystem of American poetry.
Bordered Longings
These poems bring border-crossing, grief, and yearning into a vividly lyrical conversation.
Come here for
- Desert landscapes shaped by distance, violence, and longing
- Spanish and English woven through the poems
Expect
- Dramatic voices marked by contradiction and survival
- A searching attention to loss, betrayal, and unrequited love
Where it sits
| Hispanic American Poetry | 88% |
|---|---|
| LGBTQ+ Poetry | 61% |
| American Poetry | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- Hispanic American Poetry
- LGBTQ+ Poetry
- Authors
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Publisher
- Graywolf
- Published
- August 4, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Migration and border crossings · Grief and loss · Unrequited love
- Reading lane
- American Poetry