On the Sight of Angels

Harold J. Recinos

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9798385231355
  9798385231362
• eBook ISBN:
  9798385231379
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Religious Poetry
• Index: Literature

On the Sight of Angels is poetry that makes the American context the focus of thinking, imagination, and observation to cast a light on experiences of exclusion and belonging. The poetry in this collection is presented as a mode of knowing knotted with a larger world of human experiences, giving voice to both social divisions and new possibilities of life together. Poetry carries the reader beyond intellectual meaning into the terrain of emotional, imaginative, and experiential meaning that provides ways to envision and distinctively understand the world. In part, this collection of poetry is a way to articulate the sacred, pose new questions about God in human experience, and explore issues of society that request its continuous undoing and remaking. In a time of diminished concern for justice and equality, the poems in this collection offer readers a way to reimagine an ethic focused on a solidarity of difference. In this collection, poems show the facts of everyday life may be invested with a meaning that is capable of inspiring people to bend social reality in the direction of the justice needed to repair the common good.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• The Woman
• Dutch
• The Apartment
• Elegy
• God
• Zelensky
• Dearest
• Tears
• Vodka
• Street Kid
• The Station
• Summer
• Change
• Snowy Winter
• Communion
• Unaccompanied
• Worship
• Hospitality
• The City
• The Orderly
• Naomi
• Again
• Broken
• The Block
• Missing
• Plumes
• Battery Park
• Quietly
• Rhapsody
• Time Spent
• The Massacre
• Sacrifice Alley
• Bus Stop
• Kite-Flyer
• Haymarket
• Change
• Peace
• Epiphany
• Mulling
• Calm
• Barcelona
• Speak
• Salvation
• The Funeral
• The Accident
• Seasons
• Music
• Subway
• Police Brutality
• Exquisite
• The Fire
• River Walk
• Madre
• Elements
• Night Sky
• Home Street
• Waiting
• Hotline
• Homegrown
• Dust
• Mountains
• Blessings
• The Boy
• Moltmann (1926–2024)
• The Cut
• The Stand
• Flowers
• Drifting
• Psalm 13
• Silence
• Daughter
• Lord’s Prayer
• Away the Dark
• School Yard
• The Parade
• John the Baptist
• The Beach
• The Fountain
• The Drink
• Elderly
• Misunderstood
• Overdose
• 4th of July
• The Line
• The Fit
• Nicaragua
• The Hand
• Dove
• The Dictators
• La Bodega
• Good-Bye
• Crying
• Honey
• The Child
• The Creek
• Change
• Lost
• Rain
• Girl on the Steps
• Dwelling
• Protest
• Old San Juan
• Whistling
• Simple
• Hold Me
• Trafficked
• Puppy
• Lunch
• Rallies
• America
• The Other Side
• The Workers
• The Kite
• End of Things
• The Den
• Dusk
• The Convention
• Vote
• The Ways
• Silence
• Lamp Post
• The Books
• The Subway
• Poetry Path
• The Door
• The Ride
• Tossing
• The Storefront
• Hair
• French Restaurant
• Slum
• Meditation
• Street Walker
• The Border
• Signs Matter
• Anniversary
• The Pitch
• Invisible
• Puerto Rico
• Chaos
• Raids
• Aging