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After Eden
About This Book
Recinos discovered a love for poetry living on the streets after being abandoned by immigrant Latino parents. At age sixteen, a White Presbyterian minister made him a part of his family and guided him back to school. Recinos finished high school, attended undergraduate school in Ohio and later graduate school in New York, where he befriended the Nuyorican poet the late Miguel Pinero who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the Nuyorican poets cafe. After Eden registers life at the edges of American society in ways that are both personal and universal in human experience. In this collection, poems address issues of police brutality, gun violence, immigrants' rights, the blighted urban landscape, death, hunger, religious violence, drug addiction, pluralism, spirituality, family life, political corruption, cultural cruelty, struggles for justice, and the pulse of everyday life in overlooked places. The metaphor in the title is reflected in poems that record the sounds of kindness and cruelty, sorrows and joys, greed and generosity, inequality and powerlessness, good and evil, death and life in the context of struggles to live meaningfully awake--consciously--in society.
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After Eden
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- The Crossing
- Shithole
- Color
- Rudy
- Lost Name
- The Apartment
- The Border
- The Scent
- The Storm
- The Sting
- The Garden
- The Painter
- Devotion
- The Substitute
- War Drums
- Waiting
- Bricks
- The Shore
- Resurrection
- Spanish Harlem
- Ivory Tower
- The Protest
- Factory Work
- The Raid
- The Spot
- Latino Heritage Month
- Prayer
- Look Here
- The Decay
- Imagine ...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- The Crossing
- Shithole
- Color
- Rudy
- Lost Name
- The Apartment
- The Border
- The Scent
- The Storm
- The Sting
- The Garden
- The Painter
- Devotion
- The Substitute
- War Drums
- Waiting
- Bricks
- The Shore
- Resurrection
- Spanish Harlem
- Ivory Tower
- The Protest
- Factory Work
- The Raid
- The Spot
- Latino Heritage Month
- Prayer
- Look Here
- The Decay
- Imagine
- American Dream
- Faith
- Rise
- The Talk
- Fifth Avenue
- Daily Bread
- American Shore
- Stony the Road
- Ancient Shore
- Good Night
- Paradise
- The Maid
- The Stranger
- Missed
- The Room
- The Reach
- Morning Light
- Mi Barrio
- The North Side
- Sutherland
- Weep
- Enough Practice
- The Meditation
- Homeless
- The Kitchen
- Nevertheless
- Hit
- The Dark
- Old Streets
- Innocence
- Passing
- The Martyrs
- Affection
- Advent
- Letter to the White House
- Love
- The Garden
- The Bus Ride
- The Beach Day
- Thanksgiving
- The Migrant
- Faces
- Politics
- Simple
- Needle Park
- The Balm. . .
- Things
- Thin Walls
- The Library
- The Giver
- Wordless
- The Postman
- Departed
- Bridwell Library
- The Gift
- Saint Christopher
- The Park
- Witness
- A New Song
- The Season
- The Café
- Iron Cage
- The Stone
- War
- Work
- Bethlehem
- The Miracle
- Cathedral Steps
- Not Far
- Exile
- The School
- Tax Reform
- Homeless
- Unto Us. . .
- Departure
- The Box
- Redemption
- The Infant
- Waiting
- The Rescue
- New Year
- The Bus
- The Sad Years
- Come
- The Priest
- Manna
- Snapshot
- Thought
- Martin
- Holy Spirit
- High Ground
- Dawn
- Passage
- No Safe Haven
- Get Out!
- The Border
- El Salvador
- Paradise
- Holy
- The Word
- Hold My Hand
- Dark Space
- Politics
- Romero
- March for Our Lives
- Cone