The Coming Day - Paperback

by Harold J. Recinos (Author)

The Coming Day documents life at the edges of American society in ways that are both personal and universal in human experience. In this collection, poems stand at the crossroads of anthropology, theology, history, and ethnic identity to address issues of violence, poverty, immigrants' rights, family life, drug addiction, cultural diversity, and the struggle and hope of those too long ignored. The craft in these poems keenly documents life across the vast landscape of the United States and parts of Latin America to effectively make the world of forgotten people comprehensible. Recinos' collection seeks to give voice to the invisible people of the Americas born on God's day off.

Author Biography

Harold J. Recinos discovered a love for poetry after being abandoned by Latino parents and living on the streets in New York, Los Angeles, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. At age sixteen, a White Presbyterian minister made him a part of his family and guided him back to school. Recinos finished high school and attended undergraduate school in Ohio. He later went to graduate school in New York, where he befriended the late Nuyorican poet Miguel Piñero, who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the Nuyorican poets café.