{"product_id":"lunar-hilton-elegy-9781685970956","title":"Lunar Hilton Elegy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDefining what Gabriel Palacios terms the \"vaporpoem,\" \u003ci\u003eLunar Hilton Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e moves through the artifacts of a boyhood suspended in the neon-noir dusk of 1989--home-taped \u003ci\u003eVideo Soul \u003c\/i\u003ebroadcasts, dead-mall architecture, late-night cable access--treating the past not as a home to return to, but as an improvised shelter against the present's digital weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLunar Hilton Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e asks what remains of the American myth when its \"freshly planted tracts\" resolve into blue photonic mist. At once darkly comic and urgently elegiac, Palacios offers a report from the threshold of the still-buffering all-at-once--or, more precisely, a lost-and-found sunbaked cassette of that report, still playing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is in conversation with the soundpoem project, Spanish Trail Motel. You can listen here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabriel Palacios\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Kuhl House Poets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.3lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.40w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685970956","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48671251234953,"sku":"9781685970956","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8701b0e9-48ec-46ce-aad7-fc32464e1533.jpg?v=1791956561","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/lunar-hilton-elegy-9781685970956","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}