Cornered by the Dark (eBook)

Poems

Harold J. Recinos (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
96 Seiten
Iron Pen (Verlag)
978-1-64060-431-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"Cornered by the Dark is a triumph." 

—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

W. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Julia Equivel, Thomas Merton, Langston Hughes, Pedro Pietri and Miguel Piñero, in their work make a connection between poetry, social criticism and the meaning of life together—that is a part of Harold Recinos' literary labor. His work creates a fusion between the personal and the public in verse that is searching, expansive, and walking hurt streets. Cornered by the Dark is a work about truth-telling and witness-bearing to the marginal men, women, and children who tell their story about a culture of indifference and callousness while finding courage and compassion to hope in everyday life. 

Cornered by the Dark is published under Paraclete Press's Iron Pen imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in God's goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paraclete's Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.


 

Autor

Harold Recinos is a poet with eighteen previous collections, and he is also Professor of Church and Society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, a cultural anthropologist by training. His poetry has been featured in Anglican Theological Review, Weavings, Anabaptist Witness, and Afro-Hispanic Review, among others. Since the early-1980s, Recinos has worked with and defended the civil and human rights of Salvadoran refugees in the US and in marginal communities in El Salvador.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2021
• Verlagsort: ORLEANS
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: anthropology in poetry • border crisis • border crossing • central american migrants • civil rights poetry • ethnographic literature • Fernando F. Segovia • Hispanic cultural heritage • Hispanic poet • human rights poetry • julia alvarez • Junot Diaz • Latinx poet • Latinx poetry • Maria Cristina Garcia • Mark S. Burrows • migrant crisis • Migrant poetry • Migrants • Paraclete Poetry • Perkins School of Theology • Poetry • poetry for marginal communities • Puerto Rican • recinos • Refugee crisis • refugee poetry • Salvadoran diaspora • SMU
• ISBN-10: 1-64060-431-6 / 1640604316
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64060-431-5 / 9781640604315