The Place across the River
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
The Place across the River addresses defective systems of culture, politics, religion, and social relationship with poetic discourse reflecting the predicament of the abandoned and rejected whose voices carry little social power. The collection of poems provides an unforgettable portrait of life on the margins, where the working class, Black, Brown, and rejected human beings overlooked by mainstream society weep about shattered dreams and keep hope for a divided society alive.
Endorsements (5)
“The poems in this superb collection by Harold J. Recinos are testaments to that lifeforce he calls the ‘wondrous human river.’ In exquisite lines and sentences, lucid images, and passionate meditations on a contemporary culture ‘voluptuous with hypocrisy,’ Recinos returns his readers to the difficult, necessary, and ultimately beautiful work of building a multicultural America. In a time of rhetorical bluster and easy abstraction, here instead is the genuine imprint of humanity.”
“This collection of poetry is spiritual manna for our time. Harold J. Recinos reminds us again and again of the potential of our humanity and the need for humility as we struggle to make our society a place of plenty for all. Recinos, the poet and theologian, is creating a new way to speak. In short, The Place across the River is holy.”
“The richness, uniqueness, and legacy of Ibero-Indigeno-Africano Humanism soars in this new collection by Harold Recinos. Undergirded by an abiding, radical Christian faith, The Place across the River transports the hyper-situatedness of the dispossessed, the alienated, the refugee, the forgotten, the cursed, into a Cathedral of Light, whose dazzling poems splash us with the conviction needed to elevate our sense of justice and social transformation.”
“The poems in Harold J. Recinos’ The Place across the River read like beautiful, cinematic vignettes from the life of book-loving Puerto Rican boy coming of age, first in the music- and poetry-filled immigrant neighborhoods of New York City and later in the complicated and troubled landscapes of the United States. Recinos’ poems memorialize as they bear witness, seek wonder as they critique, and, most of all, celebrate as they testify.”
“Harold Recinos weaves a tapestry of sorrowful, joyful, glorious, and luminous mysteries through the pages of this remarkable collection of poems which read as prayers, capturing beauty and tragedy in the ordinary, and turning mundane moments into extraordinary revelations. This book is a testament to the enduring power of poetry to reflect on the death and miraculous being held together.”
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