Frederick Luis Aldama

After Dark

Arts & Literature

“In a world that threatens our daily extinction, I race quicksilver to the ephemera made flesh in the sensoria dreamed by Juan Ramón Jiménez, Alfonso Reyes, Antonio Machado, Gabriela Mistral, Sor Juana, Ernesto Cardenal—and Harold Recinos. In his poems, imperious walls violently divide and tears of loss and unbelonging lacerate souls. Yet again this wordsmith extraordinaire jolts us back alive to the power of our life force: creativity, curiosity, and fellowship!”

Stony the Road

Arts & Literature

“In a world where titans of power crush the life out of our Latinx communities, Recinos brandishes pen and palabra to strike down these bloodthirsty foes. His syncopated syntax and striking semiology reach deep into those conquests of time past and present that have noosed necks and obliterated our peoples. Yet, Recinos tunnels through this darkness into an exploding light of fellowship.”

Word Simple

Arts & Literature

“With surgical precision, Recinos singles out just the right word and image that drop us deep into the pains, sorrows, and joys of what it means to be Latinx in the United States today. With the concision of poetic form, Recinos weaves together the many voices that make up the tapestry of nuestra América: our tíos and tías, our mamás and papas, bricklayers, janitors, and those with bloodied feet forced to cross borders with the promise of surviving another.”