The Looking Glass

Far and Near

Harold J. Recinos

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781666757903
  9781666757910
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666757927
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

The Looking Glass: Far and Near is poetry that searches voices in the cities of a divided America faced with an unraveling democracy and across borders where people negotiating the fragility of life offer a vision of transcendence through recovery of our common humanity. The leaps of imagination expressed in each poem reflect on issues such as COVID-19, lethal police violence, criminalized kids, school mass shootings, asylum seekers, race relations, reckless politics, and the contributions of overlooked human beings to the ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, and equality. The collection is a contribution to the artistic expression of our time with its polarization and social upheaval, and it freshly illuminates the ways rejected human beings use their agency to lurch toward justice and give voice to the possibilities of regard for all human beings.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Simplicity
• Twilight
• Meditation
• Naked City
• The Dream
• El Salvador
• The Sermon
• The Beautiful
• Rise
• The Desk
• La Isla
• Wilderness
• Daughter
• Word
• Robb Elementary School
• Iron Cage
• The Small City
• The Weak
• America
• The Flamenco Dancer
• Latino At Seminary
• The Dance Hall
• Campesinos
• The Blood Hours
• El coqui
• Don Quixote
• Good Friday
• Old Bridge
• The Riddle
• School Boy
• Spic
• The Blast
• The Shadows
• The War
• Morning
• School Assembly
• Silence
• The Sacrifice
• Hospital
• Imperfect Eden
• Strange
• Dark Words
• Creation
• Graduation
• Stay Woke
• The Hanging Tree
• Spanish Harlem
• Anno Domini
• Ring-a-Ling
• Eternal Spring
• Easter Night
• The River
• Familia
• New Year
• The Rent
• Light from Darkness
• Aging
• Spanglish
• Sacred Mother
• The House
• Dope Fiends
• Talk
• The Bus
• God
• Broken Steps
• Abandoned
• Winter
• Undocumented
• The Bishop
• The Village
• Dreamers
• Emmaus
• The Widow
• The Walk
• The Subway Ride
• Walk to Golgotha
• Street Kids
• The Gaze
• Governor
• Hope
• Beggar
• Peace
• New Testament
• Kindness
• Riches
• Soccer Hill
• Colder Voices
• Together
• The Limit
• First Love
• César Chávez
• Sunday
• Politicians
• The Stroll
• Good News
• Chango
• Violence
• Different
• Boricua
• The Promise
• The Surprise
• Awake
• The Beggars
• Love
• Whitman
• Old Man
• The Confirmation
• Sorrow
• Odds
• Tonight
• The Divorce
• Tossing Lines
• The Hospital
• The Beach
• Salvation
• When I think of Them
• Listen
• The Lovers
• Never
• The Story Teller
• Messiah
• Myself
• Birth
• Roadside
• Wise
• The Cathedral
• Gun Shots
• Language
• The Singer
• Believe
• The Rightist
• Eyes Open
• The Bible
• Saved
• Democracy
• Waiting
• The River Bank
• Remembered
• The Announcement
• The Crying
• Club Q