{"product_id":"lunar-hilton-elegy-gabriel-palacios-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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1685970958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685970956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Gabriel Palacios","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001645801727,"sku":"9781685970956","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lunar-hilton-elegy-gabriel-palacios-9781685970956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}