Faisal Mohyuddin

The Place across the River

Arts & Literature

“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.”