{"product_id":"lunar-hilton-elegy-paperback","title":"Lunar Hilton Elegy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabriel Palacios\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Palacios\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eA Ten Peso Burial for Which Truth I Sign\u003c\/i\u003e and the musical project \u003ci\u003eSpanish Trail Motel\u003c\/i\u003e, which produces sound poems and songs in dialogue with \u003ci\u003eLunar Hilton Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 78\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46399788417159,"sku":"9781685970956","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ZOdDHXTKLn9781685970956.webp?v=1793584265","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/lunar-hilton-elegy-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}