Hello I Must Be Going
Poems
Published on 22. March 2022
95 pages
978-0-8229-8880-9 (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, in particular the work of artist Ed Ruscha. With narrative and lyrical brushstrokes, Hernandez crafts vibrant landscapes that depict the chaos of the modern world and the beauty entwined within it. Hello I Must Be Going pulses with originality. This is a book of our time, and of time itself-of unrest, loss, grief, and "this endless parade / shimmering toward silence."
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05/2022
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David Hernandez is the author of Dear, Sincerely; Hoodwinked, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry; Always Danger, winner of the Crab Orchard Series Award; and A House Waiting for Music. He has been awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Southern Review, and The Best American Poetry. He is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperCollins. David teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- I. Shoutout to Ed Ruscha
- Hello I Must Be Going
- We're This and We're That, Aren't We?
- Depths of Despair
- Hurry Up Schedule
- It's Only Vanishing Cream
- Woman on Fire
- S.S. Nevertheless
- Decibel House
- History Kids
- These Are Brave Days
- Thinking the Same
- Falling but Frozen
- Historical Dust
- A Life that Doubles-Back on Itself
- Water Soluble Dreams
- Those of Us Who Have Double Parked
- Varieties of Internal Torment
- Hello I Must Be Going
- Uncertain Frontier
- Century Sickness
- Made in California
- II. The Silent Docent
- Landscape with Pink Tulips Distorted by Dread
- Landscape with Active Shooter Cutting through a National Park
- Landscape with Frisbee and Dam Breaking
- Landscape with American Sycamore and the Severed Heads of Bees
- Landscape with Blurred Figures Running toward the Vanishing Point
- Landscape with Pumpjacks Overtaken by Vines
- Landscape with Protesters on One Side, Police on the Other, a Pasture in Between
- Landscape with Abandoned Picnic and Flames
- Landscape with Doctor Taking a Breather
- Landscape with Cheetah Going Seventy in the Serengeti
- Still Life (2020)
- III. Beside Our Breaths
- Jean-Michel Basquiat's Bones
- Ai Weiwei's Middle Finger
- Marina Abramovic's Gaze
- Meditation on Impermanence
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
