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POETRY
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Hello
I Must Be Going
“I’ve read David Hernandez for twenty years but only with this terrific new book, am I realizing he is one of our generation’s leading California poets. Whether philosophical, playful, or political, his language is guided by generosity and wonder. Hello I Must Be Going is a book of irreducible wisdom and witness.” |
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“Do
not let the fact that David Hernandez is one of the funniest poets at
work today mislead you into thinking ‘comic’ poets can’t
also be learned, wise, socially aware, and capable of deep pathos. Hernandez
possesses all these qualities—in abundance. His new book is nothing
short of dazzling.” |
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Hoodwinked
“Ultimately, the lyrics
in Hoodwinked read as odes to mortality. They marvel nonstop, unsentimentally,
and with necessary ambivalence, at the world as given and the human inability
to consistently rise to the exhausting challenge of making every second
count.” |
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“To
the extent that Hernandez is interested in offering redemption, it comes
almost solely from the poet's attention to and veneration of detail, from
an imagination blessed with animate language. Hernandez's achievement
is the double witnessing of violence and beauty, the one unavoidable and
the other, by the end, earned.” |
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A
House Waiting for Music
“David Hernandez's subjects
are varied—from lust to TV to the cruelty of children to the grass
under his feet—but running through all his work is a sense of the
quotidian disasters we survive in order to see our lives and the lives
of those around us.” |
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FICTION
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No
More Us for You
“The
smart, sophisticated, yet remarkably accessible writing melds everything
together with slow-burn effects, and the characters are dead-on (so to
speak). A smoldering read.” |
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“Hernandez, an award-winning
poet, turns for the first time to fiction with a beautifully executed,
frequently brutal coming-of-age story....The author's imagery, sometimes
subtle, sometimes searing, invariably hits its mark.”
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