A review by tony_from_work
Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral

4.0

This is a really strong - and utterly brutal - collection that explores violence and desire through the lens of migration and queerness. The book is largely, but not entirely, made up of documentary poetry about the victims of international exploitation and exclusion. The best piece, I think, is "Testaments Scratched into a Water Station Barrel," which covers about half of the book and paints a vivid, unflinching tableau of migrant pain. It reminded me of a contemporary, literary "Guernica" from the North American borderlands.