Michael Dowdy

After Eden

Arts & Literature

“Summoning ‘South Bronx spirits,’ admonishing ‘the distribution clerks in heaven,’ and invoking ‘the brown God / who causes panic in white churches,’ the poetry of Harold Recinos’ After Eden offers praises and dispraises, advocating for the stranger, the migrant, the most vulnerable among us, all while denouncing those who oppress them. After Eden is an urgent poetry of outrage, searching faith, and compassion for ‘all trampled beings’ in ‘a world too often dressed for mourning.’”