Cyrus Cassells

Wading in the River

Arts & Literature

“In a time of renewed bigotry and demonization, Harold Recinos records and celebrates the lives of brown and Spanish-speaking Americans struggling and prevailing against the odds: ‘heaven is a long walk / away from the cutting / English of these streets.’ The poet’s brief, cascading lines convey an equal sense of urgency and intimacy—aspects that abet the collection’s key themes of dispossession, faith, and the unkillable longing for justice, progress, and true inclusion. Wading in the River is a devoted, impassioned, and moving book.”