After Dark

Harold J. Recinos

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781666709940
  9781666709957
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666709964
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies

Recinos’ love for poetry began on the tormented streets of the South Bronx and the experience of being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on them. On the streets, Recinos discovered a world of extreme poverty and drugs, until four years later he was taken into the family of a White Presbyterian minister and guided back into school. In graduate school in New York City, Recinos befriended the Nuyorican poets the late Miguel Piñero and Pedro Pietri, who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the Nuyorican poets café. After Dark is poetry that speaks distinctively of the cultural and worldly experience of Black and Brown humanity driven by the resilience and challenging worlds that impose human limitations. Recinos uses the poetic instrument to enable readers to hear the history and share the experiences of people who see hope in “the brutal atmosphere / of this land of purple mountain majesties / lashed to fierce grief.” Recinos is a poet who writes between the lines and with a Spanglish vision for life.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Exile
• Border Walls
• The Building
• Compassion
• Holy Mother
• Dispatch
• Bread
• Costly
• Smoke Rising
• Fatal Country
• America Dreaming
• The Lesson
• Simple
• Yonder
• The Crossing
• In the Beginning
• Confession
• Memory
• Missing
• East River
• Belief
• The Gift
• The Journey
• Serious
• Settled
• The Moment
• Flat World
• The Nation
• Dream
• Black
• Public School
• Another Life
• Doo-Wop
• Hopscotch
• Sleepless
• The Bronx
• Morning
• The Stray
• Harlem
• The Border Guard
• Rumors
• Yearning
• Lie
• August
• Love
• Thorns
• Tears
• Heal
• American Dream
• After
• Creation
• Blasphemies
• Shine
• Gratitude
• Common Day
• The Bolted Door
• The Ed Sullivan Show
• Michele
• The Devil Walking
• The Walk
• Rent
• The Chosen
• El Mes
• Eating English
• The Quiet
• The Talk
• Breonna Taylor
• Not Afraid
• Titles
• Twisted Angel
• Absurd
• Sing
• Invisible
• Love
• Waiting
• Beautiful Ones
• Adored
• Breathe
• Fading
• Abuela
• The Café
• The Wall
• The idiot
• New Judge
• Plead
• Holy Water
• Vote
• Pity
• For Such a Time
• Day Turn Right
• Waiting
• Love
• The Vote
• Good News
• Sing it High
• School
• Solitude
• Phony
• Lost Things
• Welcome
• First Walk
• The Lowly
• After Illness
• The River Weeps
• Craving Eden
• The Alley
• Spanglish
• Smile
• Advent
• Waiting
• The Tree
• Confession
• Peace
• Road to Bethlehem
• Tropical Nights
• The Margins
• Holy Mother
• The Mountain
• Lazarus
• The Tyrant
• The Birthday
• Invisible
• Jesus
• Navidad
• Christmas Eve
• The New Year
• The Library
• Looking Back
• The Poor
• U.S. Capitol
• Potter’s Wheel
• Skipping Heart
• New Day
• Cristian
• Pat
• The Rock
• The Pencils