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The Place Across the River
The Place across the River addresses defective systems of culture, politics, religion, and social relationship with poetic discourse reflecting the predicament of the abandoned and rejected whose voices carry little social power. The collection of poems provides an unforgettable portrait of life on the margins, where the working class, Black, Brown, and rejected human beings overlooked by mainstream society weep about shattered dreams and keep hope for a divided society alive.
Book Details
- Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
- Publish Date: Jan 24th, 2024
- Pages: 172
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.44in - 0.77lb
- EAN: 9798385203277
- Categories: • Subjects & Themes - General
About the Author
Recinos, Harold J.: - Harold J. Recinos is professor of church and society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Among his publications are Good News from the Barrio: Prophetic Witness for the Church (2006), Wading through Many Voices: Toward a Theology of Public Conversation (editor, 2011), Where the Sidewalks Meet (2022), The Days You Bring (2022) and The Looking Glass: Far and Near (2023). He completed his PhD with honors in cultural anthropology in 1993 from the American University in Washington, DC. Since the mid-1980s, Recinos has worked with the Salvadoran refugee community and with marginal communities in El Salvador on issues of human rights.
Praise for this book
"The poems in this superb collection by Harold J. Recinos are testaments to that lifeforce he calls the 'wondrous human river.' In exquisite lines and sentences, lucid images, and passionate meditations on a contemporary culture 'voluptuous with hypocrisy, ' Recinos returns his readers to the difficult, necessary, and ultimately beautiful work of building a multicultural America. In a time of rhetorical bluster and easy abstraction, here instead is the genuine imprint of humanity."
--Peter Campion, author of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry
"This collection of poetry is spiritual manna for our time. Harold J. Recinos reminds us again and again of the potential of our humanity and the need for humility as we struggle to make our society a place of plenty for all. Recinos, the poet and theologian, is creating a new way to speak. In short, The Place across the River is holy."
--Lori Marie Carlson, author of A Path to the World: Becoming You
"The richness, uniqueness, and legacy of Ibero-Indigeno-Africano Humanism soars in this new collection by Harold Recinos. Undergirded by an abiding, radical Christian faith, The Place across the River transports the hyper-situatedness of the dispossessed, the alienated, the refugee, the forgotten, the cursed, into a Cathedral of Light, whose dazzling poems splash us with the conviction needed to elevate our sense of justice and social transformation."
--Rodrigo Toscano, author of The Cut Point
"The poems in Harold J. Recinos' The Place across the River read like beautiful, cinematic vignettes from the life of book-loving Puerto Rican boy coming of age, first in the music- and poetry-filled immigrant neighborhoods of New York City and later in the complicated and troubled landscapes of the United States. Recinos' poems memorialize as they bear witness, seek wonder as they critique, and, most of all, celebrate as they testify."
--Faisal Mohyuddin, author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children
"Harold Recinos weaves a tapestry of sorrowful, joyful, glorious, and luminous mysteries through the pages of this remarkable collection of poems which read as prayers, capturing beauty and tragedy in the ordinary, and turning mundane moments into extraordinary revelations. This book is a testament to the enduring power of poetry to reflect on the death and miraculous being held together."
--Teresa Delgado, author of A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom
--Peter Campion, author of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry
"This collection of poetry is spiritual manna for our time. Harold J. Recinos reminds us again and again of the potential of our humanity and the need for humility as we struggle to make our society a place of plenty for all. Recinos, the poet and theologian, is creating a new way to speak. In short, The Place across the River is holy."
--Lori Marie Carlson, author of A Path to the World: Becoming You
"The richness, uniqueness, and legacy of Ibero-Indigeno-Africano Humanism soars in this new collection by Harold Recinos. Undergirded by an abiding, radical Christian faith, The Place across the River transports the hyper-situatedness of the dispossessed, the alienated, the refugee, the forgotten, the cursed, into a Cathedral of Light, whose dazzling poems splash us with the conviction needed to elevate our sense of justice and social transformation."
--Rodrigo Toscano, author of The Cut Point
"The poems in Harold J. Recinos' The Place across the River read like beautiful, cinematic vignettes from the life of book-loving Puerto Rican boy coming of age, first in the music- and poetry-filled immigrant neighborhoods of New York City and later in the complicated and troubled landscapes of the United States. Recinos' poems memorialize as they bear witness, seek wonder as they critique, and, most of all, celebrate as they testify."
--Faisal Mohyuddin, author of The Displaced Children of Displaced Children
"Harold Recinos weaves a tapestry of sorrowful, joyful, glorious, and luminous mysteries through the pages of this remarkable collection of poems which read as prayers, capturing beauty and tragedy in the ordinary, and turning mundane moments into extraordinary revelations. This book is a testament to the enduring power of poetry to reflect on the death and miraculous being held together."
--Teresa Delgado, author of A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom