Harold J. Recinos

Broschiertes Buch

Stony the Road

Beschreibung

Recinos' love for poetry dates back to being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on New York City streets. When he turned sixteen, he was taken into the family of a white Presbyterian minister and guided back to school. After finishing high school, Recinos attended undergraduate school in Ohio and graduate school in New York, where he befriended the Nuyorican poets Miguel Pinero and Pedro Pietri, who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Stony the Road engages life outside of mainstream American society and picks its way through places of despair and marginality to the revelations of belonging that protest indifference and inequality. The collection raises questions and proposes responses to the crisis of understanding in economic and political life, as well as the cultural narrative that America welcomes strangers. The poems tap into the changing mood of American life and the obscured world of rejected human beings and communities by exploring lives worth telling.

Autor

Harold J. Recinos is professor of church and society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. A cultural anthropologist, he specializes in work and ethnographic literature dealing with undocumented Central American migrants and the Salvadoran diaspora. He has published numerous articles, chapters in collections, and written major works in Latino Theology, including 18 collections of poetry. Recently, two new collections of poetry were released, The Looking Glass: Far and Near and The Place across the River (under review for a Pulitzer Prize). Recinos's poetry has been featured in Anglican Theological Review, Weavings, Sojourners, Anabaptist Witness, The Arts, Perspective, Afro-Hispanic Review, Hispanic Theological Initiative, En Foco, among others. Since the early 1980s, Recinos has worked with and defended the civil and human rights of Salvadoran refugees in the States and in marginal communities in El Salvador.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Resource Publications
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781532674402
• ISBN-10: 1532674406
• Artikelnr.: 55481789