Ceremonial -- Testaments scratched into a water station barrel -- Guillotine -- Sentence -- Saguaro -- Autobiography of my hungers -- Córdoba -- Questions for my body -- Border patrol agent -- Song of the open road -- Lines written at Federico García Lorca Park -- Black water -- To Francisco X. Alarcón -- "Around every circle another can be drawn" -- Commercial break -- To a straight man -- Postmortem -- 1707 San Joaquin Avenue -- To Juan Doe #234.
Summary:
"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?" --
