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.
ISBN: | 9780809326914 |
Publication date: | 30th March 2006 |
Author: | David Hernandez |
Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 86 pages |
Series: | Crab Orchard Series in Poetry |
Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |