To the Angelbeast by Eduardo C. Corral
To the Angelbeast
Eduardo C. CorralFor Arthur Russell
All that glitters isn’t music.
Once, hidden in tall grass,
I tossed fistfuls of dirt into the air:
doe after doe of leaping.You said it was nothing
but a trick of the light. Gold
curves. Gold scarves.Am I not your animal?
You’d wait in the orchard for hours
to watch a deer
break from the shadows.You said it was like lifting a cello
out of its black case.
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This poem appeared in Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral, published by Yale University Press, 2012. (Available direct from Yale University Press • Also on: Amazon • Bookshop)
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“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. The first Latino poet to win the competition, Corral is also winner of the 2011 Whiting Writers Award. 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.”” (Source)
ABOUT EDUARDO C. CORRAL
Eduardo C. Corral is the author of Guillotine (Graywolf Press, 2020) and Slow Lightning (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 2012), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets. His honors include a Whiting Writers’ Award, a 92Y Discovery Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Holmes National Poetry Prize and the Hodder Fellowship, both from Princeton University. A CantoMundo… (more)
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