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Some of the light : new and selected poems / Tim Z. Hernandez.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Raised voices (Beacon Press)Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2023]Description: 168 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807006696
  • 0807006696
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Some of the light. -- Endling -- Refraction #1 -- Father of clarity -- A basic understanding -- Refraction #2 -- Single parent soliloquy (& the joy of kites) -- This city -- Refraction #3 -- Self portrait at 46 -- Time capsule -- Limerence -- Unqualified poem -- Refraction #4 -- Settling -- Sandalwood -- Salvador -- The poet's return -- Refraction #5 -- Hometown ode -- Ish -- Tik tok -- Brown lotus (a performance) -- Her majesty's last stand -- Variations on This Land -- Refractions #6 -- Sleepless nights (Thich Nhat Hanh is dying) -- A grocery store -- The talk (talisman for Salvador) -- Natural takeover of small things. -- Home -- Brown Christ -- The day Johnny Tapia died on my sidewalk -- Undelivered postcards to Lydia -- San Joaquin sutra -- Natural takeover of small things -- Instructions for the alter -- Flying parallel -- My name is Hernandez -- Adios, Fresno -- Culture of flow. -- Culture of flow -- How to get to the San Joaquin River -- Skin tax. -- Mama's boy -- I rub my hands -- I arrive late -- I pissed on Little Ricky -- Perched on the face -- If I could tell you -- Enter madrugada -- I'm going to put Virgil down -- When young Andres.
Summary: "Some of the Light: New & Selected gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award-winning poetry, offering a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author. At its core, Some of the Light contains collected poems of love, told through the lens of a single father raising two children alone in the borderlands. They are at times intimate and confessional, telescoping from personal relationships to spiritual inquiry, from human rights to the environment, while between the cracks of the poems are poetic contemplations, chronicling the passing days of the pandemic"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 811.6 H557 Available 33111011193956
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

25 years of writing from one of our most gifted Latinx poets, featuring work from early explorations of machismo to new meditations on life as a single father, immigrant detention, and spiritual inquiry

Some of the Light gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award-winning poetry, offering 28 new poems and a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author.

At its core, Some of the Light contains collected poems of love, told through the lens of a single father raising two children alone in the borderlands. They are at times intimate and confessional, ranging from personal relationships to spiritual inquiry, from human rights to the environment, while between the cracks of the poems are poetic contemplations , chronicling the passing days of the pandemic.

This latest work by Hernandez reveals a writer whom former US poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera calls "a titan-unafraid to take to the road, get his hands dirty, to fully immerse himself in the world of his subjects."

Some of the Light is a part of Beacon Press's Raised Voices poetry series, established in 2021 to raise historically excluded voices and perspectives, and to celebratepoetry's ability to access truths in ways no other form can.

"Some of the Light: New & Selected gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award-winning poetry, offering a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author. At its core, Some of the Light contains collected poems of love, told through the lens of a single father raising two children alone in the borderlands. They are at times intimate and confessional, telescoping from personal relationships to spiritual inquiry, from human rights to the environment, while between the cracks of the poems are poetic contemplations, chronicling the passing days of the pandemic"-- Provided by publisher.

Some of the light. -- Endling -- Refraction #1 -- Father of clarity -- A basic understanding -- Refraction #2 -- Single parent soliloquy (& the joy of kites) -- This city -- Refraction #3 -- Self portrait at 46 -- Time capsule -- Limerence -- Unqualified poem -- Refraction #4 -- Settling -- Sandalwood -- Salvador -- The poet's return -- Refraction #5 -- Hometown ode -- Ish -- Tik tok -- Brown lotus (a performance) -- Her majesty's last stand -- Variations on This Land -- Refractions #6 -- Sleepless nights (Thich Nhat Hanh is dying) -- A grocery store -- The talk (talisman for Salvador) -- Natural takeover of small things. -- Home -- Brown Christ -- The day Johnny Tapia died on my sidewalk -- Undelivered postcards to Lydia -- San Joaquin sutra -- Natural takeover of small things -- Instructions for the alter -- Flying parallel -- My name is Hernandez -- Adios, Fresno -- Culture of flow. -- Culture of flow -- How to get to the San Joaquin River -- Skin tax. -- Mama's boy -- I rub my hands -- I arrive late -- I pissed on Little Ricky -- Perched on the face -- If I could tell you -- Enter madrugada -- I'm going to put Virgil down -- When young Andres.

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