Always Danger
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2006
99 pages
978-0-8093-8790-8 (ISBN)
Description
Always Danger offers a lyrical and highly imaginative exploration into the hazards that surround people's lives-whether it's violence, war, mental illness, car accidents, or the fury of Mother Nature. In his second collection of poems, David Hernandez embraces the element of surprise: a soldier takes refuge inside a hollowed-out horse, a man bullies a mountain, and a giant pink donut sponsors age-old questions about beliefs. Hernandez typically eschews the politics that often surround the inner circle of contemporary literature, but in this volume he quietly sings a few bars with a political tone: one poem shadows the conflict in Iraq, another reflects our own nation's economic and cultural divide. Always Danger parallels Hernandez's joy of writing: unmapped, spontaneous, and imbued with nuanced revelation.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One
- Damage
- The Soldier Inside the Horse
- Disappearer
- Customer Lounge
- Alzheimer's
- The Grandfather
- The Taxicab Incident
- According to One Statistic
- The Goldfish
- Another Dimension
- Always Danger
- Two
- Composition in Red
- Composition in Black
- Humiliating the Tyrants
- At the Courthouse
- Jury Duty
- Bullet
- Chess Match Ends in Fight
- Three
- Early Lesson
- Vons Parking Lot, Late October
- Ghost Brother
- Driving Toward the Sun
- A Story to Tell
- The Quiet Minutes
- The Dinner Party
- Night
- The Gondolier
- How to Commit Adultery
- Leaving the Nurse
- Four
- Portrait of My Father Slapping His Ear
- What a Little Charisma Can Do
- Man on an Island
- Topiary
- The Sad Punk
- Balcony Talk with Cigars
- Aim
- Dumbest
- Donut Shop
- The Eyes
- Five
- Fontanelle
- Episode
- Subzero
- The Circus Octopus
- Splitmind
- Appointment
- Self-Portrait with Back Turned
- A Brief History of Antidepressants
- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
- Back Cover
