{"product_id":"9780300178937","title":"Slow Lightning","description":"\u003cp\u003eEduardo 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. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamlessly 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm a cowboy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e        riding bareback \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy soul is \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e        whirling \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabove my head like a lasso. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e        My right hand \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea pistol. My left \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e        automatic. I'm knocking \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon every door. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e        I'm coming on strong . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015759282416,"sku":"9780300178937","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300178937_p0.jpg?v=1763670151","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300178937","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}