Tell Somebody

Harold J. Recinos

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781666775129, 9781666775136
• eBook ISBN: 9781666775143
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Poesia

Tell Somebody is poetry about what is seen, touched, tasted, and heard that takes on the beauty and ugliness in society. Each poem seeks to persuade the overlooked into public light. The collection comments on the exclusion familiar to people that have their backs pressed against the wall and are concerned to arrest the consequences of inequality issuing forth from cultures of cruelty. Readers are welcomed to step into the existential reality of persons who challenge the moral claims of society upon the marginalized found on the streets, in the workplace, and crossing borders. The collection is a contribution to the artistic expression of a time of social conflict, and it offers a careful and thought-provoking resource by which to reflect on the complex issues of identity and justice in the United States.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Dear Langston
• The Kids
• Lifted Up
• Stars
• The Barrio
• Returned
• Empire
• Reverse Standard Version
• Escape
• Enlightenment
• Music
• Big Pun
• The Inheritance
• The Cathedral
• Never Forget
• The Conspiracy
• Worn-out
• Wrinkles
• Redemption
• The Rain
• Dream
• Life Together
• The Widows
• Holding Hands
• The Letter
• Crossing
• The Mayor
• Town Square
• Near
• The Rubble
• The Crimes
• Wedding Photo
• The Chill
• Slowly North
• The Pandas
• The Dictator
• Law
• Lament
• Yellow Ribbons
• Politics
• Redemption
• The Projects
• Prayer
• Exhale
• Telling Stories
• Stubborn
• Heritage
• American Religion
• The Grandmothers
• Singing
• The Bus
• Shameful
• Hobby
• The Library
• Unborn
• Femicide
• The Social Club
• La Bodega
• School
• Flag
• The Window
• The Criminal
• Darling
• The Beggar
• The River
• Colors
• The Curtain
• Panhandler
• Big Steeple Church
• A Father’s Death
• The Forgotten
• The Celebration
• The Moon
• The Other Side
• Simple
• The Prayers
• Ser or Not to Be
• Murmurs
• Tecato
• Winos
• Walton Avenue
• Snow
• The Refuge
• The Tree
• The Anthem
• Love Song
• Sorrows
• Essex Street
• Guns
• Public Hospital
• The Bench
• Awake
• Roof Café
• Gun Love
• The Funeral
• Beautiful
• The Holy
• Catechism
• Masons
• Transistor Radio
• Bus Ride
• Faith
• Ortiz Funeral Home
• Rio Grande
• Thanksgiving
• Dope
• The Passage
• The Ruins
• Waiting
• Protest
• The Star Matters
• The Meantime
• Beauty School
• School Boy
• Adeste Fideles
• Digital Trade Cards
• After
• The Wait
• The Season
• Mystery
• The Conversation
• The Hyphen
• The Place
• War
• The Market
• Santeria
• Romeo y Julieta
• No Kneeling
• Politicians
• Adored
• Quietly
• The Park
• Old Timers
• The Shop
• College Town
• The Spell
• Drops
• Always Exile
• The New Politics
• Fishing
• Beloved
• Sit
• Mother
• Chinese Laundry
• Theodicy