Guillotine

“Corral nimbly bridges the personal and political, evoking themes of migration to ask what it means to be unwanted.”–The New York Times Book Review, New & Noteworthy

“The lyricism of this writing pulls us toward wonder, before, an instant later, documentary fact returns us to horror.”–The New Yorker

“No matter what his subject, Corral is a gifted storyteller, precise and dizzying with his imagery.”–The Millions

“Each poem exists as its own small story, using Corral’s gift for imaginative prose to establish an intimacy between writer and reader in only a handful of words.”–Willamette Week

“Devastating and electrifying… . Shot through with the dark realities of human tragedy, Corral’s latest is a virtuosic compendium of grief.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Eduardo Corral’s ravishing new collection begins with a ceremony of touch-hunger and self-abnegation… . An erotics of loneliness, a deep song of exile, of indefinable yearning. At times, even the text itself blurs. It’s as if I am reading through smoke, through tears.”–Diane Seuss

“These poems step ‘into the grit / & whirl’ of the desert like a fervent saint: devotional, rhapsodic, divine… . Guillotine is a timely, excoriating, and captivating book born of perilous times.”–D. A. Powell

“A master artist… . Only a poet as skilled as Corral could connect rejection from the US nation-state with unrequited love to such effect. Carefully code-switching between Spanish and English, Corral is a poet to be studied for his radical contributions to the American canon.”–Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Eduardo C. Corral is the author of Slow Lightning, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches at North Carolina State University.

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