Harold J. Recinos

Gebundenes Buch

Words Chosen for the Wall

Beschreibung

Words Chosen for the Wall is poetry testifying to the deepest elements in the American dream casting a light on cultural diversity, experiences of exclusion and belonging, and the walls of dividing hostility in society. It explores new paths that leap for unity, empathy, and hope. In this collection, poems give voice to experiences in a divided world and reach for beauty, unity, and emotional clarity. Like graffiti on walls, the poems call out various and different kinds of abuses and visions of life to quote Eliot ""at the still point of the turning world."" Each poem creates a space for the reader to bring their own baggage to a setting that questions idealized notions of community by offering lyrical words that speak to realities that are often ignored, or worse, forgotten. In this work, poems guide readers to the terrain of imagination that is a fine tool for repairing what is broken in society and that ceaselessly pleads for a solidarity of difference. These poems motivate dreams of a different existence and decolonize the imagination from the limitations of a single culture and understanding of life together.

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: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9798385220038
• Artikelnr.: 71670273