
Hello I Must Be Going
Poems
David Hernandez(Author)
University of Pittsburgh Press
Will be published approx. on 28. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-8229-6680-7 (ISBN)
Description
Hello I Must Be Going, David Hernandez's fifth collection of poems, offers a unique take on poetry informed by works of art. With narrative and lyrical brushstrokes, Hernandez crafts vibrant landscapes that depict the chaos of the modern world and the beauty entwined within it.
Reviews / Votes
Readers will appreciate the specific, thoughtful attention these poems generate about depression, government violence, and parental aging, as well as the inventive investigations of visual art motifs. * Publishers Weekly * Hernandez demonstrates how some art helps us bear the world while also making us face its full menace and brutality. For Hernandez's poem-gallery is frightening-full of death, sick loved ones, and dire social problems such as climate change, active shooters, and Trump's abuse of migrant children. The book asks us to pay anguished attention to these threats and disasters, but offers art, and the ways we attend to art, as an intermediary between us and brute reality. * Harvard Review Online * I've read David Hernandez for twenty years, but only with this terrific new book am I realizing he is one of our generation's leading California poets. Whether philosophical, playful, or political, his language is guided by generosity and wonder. He explores the shifting landscapes and shifting cultural grounds underfoot. Beneath his laid-back West Coast charm, he lays bare the intensities of modern life. Hello I Must Be Going is a book of irreducible wisdom and witness. -- Terrance Hayes, author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Between the hello and the going lies the shadow-and the poem. In this compelling new collection, David Hernandez writes poems that tumble forward so intensely they rattle our teeth, and others that are nearly frozen in anticipatory grief. This collection offers up the choices we contend with in an era of 'obliterating despair.' Fret or sleepwalk, or take the world in through the senses, taste the fruit, 'despite.' -- Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnetsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
118 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-6680-7 (9780822966807)
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E-Book
03/2022
Princeton University Press
€17.49
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Person
David Hernandez's most recent book of poetry, Hoodwinked, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. His other books include Always Danger and A House Waiting for Music. He is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch. David tea