In his book “Guillotine,” the poet Eduardo Corral pinches our reality and folds it into the Sonoran Desert as we are magically transported into his world. Memorable imagery seeps through
Poet Solmaz Sharif to Deliver Vassar’s Annual Elizabeth Bishop Lecture Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and the New York Times. Her awards include a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, as well as fellowships from the NEA, Lannan Foundation, and Stanford University. She is currently teaching at U.C. Berkeley.
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