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1. Jose Hernandez Diaz

The Lighthouse Tattoo

1. Jose Hernandez Diaz

Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man

“Jose Hernandez Diaz's poems cut through the modern acrobatics of the dazzling poetry parade in service of a straightforward and boldly honest approach. With cool constraint, he ‘abandons the hierarchies’ of language and chisels out the diamonds of our menial lives, ‘not for the ego's sake, but for love.’ And because of this, we trust his witness, his testimony of the people and places that populate this worthy collection.”—Tim Z. Hernandez, author of Some of the Light “What joys, what celebrations, and what tributes await the reader of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man. Through a voice of such intense clarity, Diaz utilizes both the ode and the prose poem as methods of defiance—pushing back against oppressive forces while creating poetic space for homage, as well as new, more nuanced histories; James Joyce, Lorca, Neruda, Holden Caulfield, José Emilio Pacheco, and Mrs. Weir, a high school English teacher, are just some of the literary cast of characters that are recontextualized in worlds that are surreal, at times absurd, and existential. The various speakers in the collection are in search for their sense of belonging while external forces constantly remind them of their otherness. Poetry. Poetry is where the speaker lands, finds his place, and invites us in. Ultimately, a directive in the midst of social and political unrest: ‘we must remember not to be loaded weapons aimed at each other.”—Iliana Rocha, author of The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez 

1. Jose Hernandez Diaz

The Parachutist

1. Jose Hernandez Diaz

Bad Mexican, Bad American

“The publication of Jose Hernandez Diaz's first full collection of poems is cause for celebration. He is a gifted poet always ready to delight with outstanding song and poetry. Bad Mexican, Bad American is the best book I've read in a long time from a young poet who holds no punches. Hernandez Diaz’s inspiration comes from daily life, from family, from a rich cultural tradition that make every poem in this collection shine with great empathy and humanity. I love how much the poet respects the sacrifices his parents made. I hear the plight of a young artist moving the reader with powerful and well-crafted poems. I am proud to call Hernandez Diaz one of the best poets of his generation, and certainly a poet who walks daily with Lorca's Duende and we are given the gift of his very best in this collection.”