About Me
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Eduardo C. Corral is a CantoMundo fellow. He holds degrees from ASU and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, jubilat, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Post Road. His work has been honored with a "Discovery"/The Nation award and residencies from The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He has served as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University and as the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. He's the interview editor for Boxcar Poetry Review. He won the 2011 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
3 comments:
I like Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, his memoir. But I actually like Some Ether, and would debate its being too sentimental. Highly emotional subject matter, yes. But I thought the first couple of years I've gone back to read it over and over, that he does a good job of objectifying his subject, making it powerful with good imagery,etc.
Perhaps I will re-read Some Ether this weekend. (I've heard Flynn attends reading in Jesus sandals. Oh my, he MUST be a fool if he does that! jk)
I think Some Ether is great. I think Nick Flynn gets a lot of grief for whatever "hubris" is not rare enough in our little gardens of verse. I don't know him but I do like the poems, for whatever that's worth. In some cases I've found that it's best to know the poems and not the poet. There are some amazing poems out there that belong to some really ridiculous, horrifying humans. Ignorance had been bliss...
I like the Corralian poesies very much.
I liked "Some Ether," but thought "Blind Huber" was a falling off.
I've never met Flynn.
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