cover art by

Felipe Baeza

Guillotine

Graywolf Press, 2020

“Corral nimbly bridges the personal and political, evoking themes of migration to ask what it means to be unwanted.”

New York Times Book Review,

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from GRAYWOLF:

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. 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?