Jeffrey Lamar Coleman

After Dark

Arts & Literature

“After Dark is graced by an urgent, persistent, liberatory voice that at one moment dreams of reaching ‘all the way / to God’s ear’ and at another condemns ‘the monstrous nationalist / leaving the White House.’ Similarly, the poems in this collection honor ‘a worker / who sweats for a petty wage’ as well as ‘dark children chewing / on bitter bread’ and ‘perishing on / this wounded earth.’ After Dark makes clear that Recinos is a poet who has been gifted with an endless fount of benevolence and is guided by a faith rooted in love, humanity, and compassion.”