Richard Perez

After Eden

Arts & Literature

“The poems in After Eden capture the utopic contradictions that haunt and form how we dream in the United States. . . . With each poem, we encounter the pain and beauty of ordinary people who carve a life out of the imbalance of social existence. Ultimately, After Eden exhorts us, through the elegance and ardor of its poetic vision, to imagine a more just and loving world.”

On the Sight of Angels

Arts & Literature

“In Harold Recinos’s luminous new book, On the Sight of Angels, the poignant features of everyday life serve as the ethical and aesthetic focus of his poetry. Recinos gleans love and meaning from the systematic fraying of experience. Chronicling the burdens of existence, each poem reflects on a tenacious will to life where connection and communion mitigate the vampiric violence of capitalism. What we experience as readers is the sheer brilliance of a poet committed to the vitality of ordinary existence, to the divinity of marginalized subjects, and to a revolutionary perseverance that brings light to the world.”

Stony the Road

Arts & Literature

“Harold Recinos’ new book of poetry, Stony the Road, affirms the humanity of the dispossessed and shines an ethical light on the persistence of colonial violence that mars the gritty lives of the many. Stony the Road insists on love as the foundation of a just realm. Here ancient wisdom informs our world to exorcise the pathologies of power that plague us.”