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    Voices on the Corner
    Voices on the Corner
    Voices on the Corner
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    Voices on the Corner

    By Harold J. Recinos

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    Harold J. Recinos is the son of a Guatemalan father and Puerto Rican mother who at age twelve was abandoned to New York City streets. After living on the streets between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Recinos met a Presbyterian minister who had discovered the God of the oppressed while active in civil rights marches in the 60s. The minister took Recinos into his family, helped him kick a heroin habit, and enrolled him in school. Voices on the Corner documents life at the edges of American society in ways that are both personal and universal in the human experience. The poems provide a fresh insight into the existential experiences of people excluded from mainstream society. In a celebration of dazzling texture, poems here address issues of police brutality, gun violence, immigrants' rights, the blighted urban landscape, death, hunger, religious violence, drug addiction, pluralism, spirituality, family life, hope, and the pulse of everyday life in overlooked places.
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    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateNov 6, 2015
    ISBN9781498229036
    Voices on the Corner
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    Harold J. Recinos

    Harold Recinos is a poet with ten previous collections, and he is also Professor of Church and Society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, a cultural anthropologist by training. His poetry has been featured in Anglican Theological Review, Weavings, Anabaptist Witness, and Afro-Hispanic Review, among others. Since the early-1980s, Recinos has worked with and defended the civil and human rights of Salvadoran refugees in the US and in marginal communities in El Salvador.

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      Voices on the Corner - Harold J. Recinos

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      Voices on the Corner

      Harold J. Recinos

      Voices on the Corner

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      2015

      Harold J. Recinos. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions. Wipf and Stock Publishers,

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Acknowledgements

      King

      The Walk

      The Cathedral

      Games

      The Water

      Speak

      The Place

      The Drowning

      The Street

      Piety Lost

      Latino Town

      Madness

      The Traveler

      The Bell

      The Visit

      Wait

      The Well

      Robin Williams

      The Prayer

      Undocumented

      Suspects

      The Fall

      Till Later

      Get out!

      The Distance

      The Rosary

      The Church

      Mount Pleasant

      Stop

      Praise

      Voices

      The Playground

      The Ride

      God Has Pity

      Been Waiting

      Home Street

      Violence

      The Corner

      14th Street

      Children

      Homeless

      The Lord’s Prayer

      Black Out

      Piece Work

      Once

      Fire

      The Witness

      Jesse

      Stumble

      Snowy Day

      The Anniversary

      The Crucified

      Shot

      The Crossing

      Brother

      Lela

      The Marina

      Family

      The Stoop

      Hope

      Lost Paradise

      The River

      The Birthday

      Sign of the Dove

      Alone

      Delivered

      Evening

      Washed Away

      Halloween

      Protest

      Awake

      Christmas

      The Light

      The New Year

      Wait

      Spider’s Web

      The Window

      City

      The Feast

      American Dreaming

      South Bronx Street

      South Bronx Soldier

      La bodega

      Sweet Kiss

      Clocks

      Burning

      Everlasting

      Yom Ha’Shoah

      Unaccompanied Minors

      Follow

      Night

      Pocket Memory

      After School

      Earth

      Sight

      Unnoticed

      San Romero

      Freddie Gray

      Gravestone

      Light

      Learning

      The Pause

      Rain

      The Saint (May 23, 2015)

      The Bridge

      Father’s Day

      The Little Park

      Emanuel AME

      Evening

      Morning

      Get Out

      Twisted

      Acknowledgements

      Grateful acknowledgement is made to Westminster John Knox Press and Abingdon Press in which some of my poems have appeared.

      Excerpted from Jesus Weeps, Published by Abingdon Press (c) 1992.Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Latino Town

      Been Waiting

      14th Street

      Excerpted from Who Comes in the Name of the Lord? Published by Abingdon Press (c) 1997.Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Burning in Heaven

      The Witness

      The Crucified

      Excerpted from Good News from the Barrio: Prophetic Witness for the Church (c) 2006. Used by Permission. All rights reserved.

      Suspects

      Games

      The Church

      Piece Work

      Excerpted from Harold J. Recinos and Hugo Magallanes, eds. Jesus in the Hispanic Community: Images of Christ from Theology to Popular Religion (c)2009.

      The Water

      The Kiss

      Speak

      Finally, this book was made possible by support from Perkins School of Theology’s Center for the Study of Latino/a Christianity and Religions, and funds provided by the Henry Luce Foundation.

      King

      the night falls into

      brightly colored light

      that streams down the

      mountain passes, rolls

      along the city streets and

      touches people he never

      knew, while each radiant

      moment turns hate into stone

      with the weight of simple

      words that tell the truth.

      beloved, you the people in

      King’s dream, the sadness in

      his daily gaze, the immense

      travail deeply felt that steered

      his step along a different

      path, must echo now the

      righteous dream. shout

      even in the places you

      cannot reach, scream on

      this road so long ago begun

      the magnificent sound of

      free at last, free at last.

      The Walk

      we came this way before

      afraid of the dark, looking up

      at the stars that know nothing

      of what lies ahead, or a world

      in need of heaven, or the cries

      on all the corners, or the need

      to make truth out of all the

      faulty things that make our

      trembling self. we came this

      way before frightened by the

      falling tears left by people utterly

      against the loud voices that quarrel

      on the sidewalk and drag us into

      their empty pits. we came this way

      before hoping to find light lingering

      some place not yet seen that calls

      us over to it.

      The Cathedral

      they depart the Cathedral

      feeling history not their own,

      touched by the mysterious

      grace that made your church

      a foe of money, military

      and might. each day they

      come to pray for you,

      the pastor who dared

      to speak the

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