Eduardo C. Corral Quotes

United States, Poet
February 25, 1973

Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and MFA Assistant Professor in the Department of English at NC State University. His first collection, Slow Lightning, published by Yale University Press, was the winner of the 2011 Yale Younger Series Poets award, making him the first Latino recipient of this prize.

You are nothing like my father. And like my father you are nothing.

Eduardo C. Corral
- My Father
The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.

Eduardo C. Corral
- Heart
- Broken
- Window

I throw/my head back,/& stare at the slowest lightning,/the stars.

Eduardo C. Corral
- Stars
- Head
- Lighting
Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.

Eduardo C. Corral
- Heart
- Love
- Burning
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.

Eduardo C. Corral
- Lifting
- Shadows
- Orchard
If I ask for a goldfish, he spits a glob of phlegm into a jar of water.

Eduardo C. Corral
- Water
- Goldfish