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His poems integrate the music of the masses, the staccato rhythms of the street, and the heart of humanity as its beat rises above the babble of hatred, pettiness, elitism, and indifference. Recinos' words are luminous, breathing laughter, love, hope, and joy into an often unjust world. --Louis Mendoza, Arizona State University; author of A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S. Recinos' latest resonates with the gifts and struggles of beautiful people on the margins. . . . Recinos challenges people of faith everywhere to learn from his protagonists because in the 'The Woman in the Factory, ' the 'Campesino, ' and the 'Watch Fixer' we see the face of God. --Efrain Agosto, Professor, New York Theological Seminary Harold J. Recinos is professor of Church and Society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Among recent publications are Harold J. Recinos, ed. 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He speaks for those who, like him, have eaten the 'bitter bread' of social oppression, but unlike him, 'have found their way \/ into dark boxes marked for the grave, ' be they junkies, the destitute, or the immigrant poor. He grieves the loss of America's commitment to justice, the 'impossible dream, ' and extols both nation and God to build 'a place to call home.' --Orlando Menes, Professor, English Department, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame Breathing Space is a beautiful collection of poems that exemplify a breath of fresh air. Harold Recinos writes intimate compositions of his personal and community experiences that have become an integral part of this other American way of life. Though he underscores a life of despair, hunger, sadness, solitude, and tragedy, Recinos also announces a cycle of love, celebration, happiness, triumph, hope, justice and, above all, salvation and resurrection. --Luis William, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish Recinos adds his sonorous voice to the struggles of our times. He is a poet of witness and quiet rage. His poems stitch a tapestry that goes beyond the personal and into the universal human necessity for dignity and beauty and truth. Breathing Space is a book everyone must read. --Virgil Suarez, Professor, English Department, Florida State University Harold J. Recinos is Professor of Church and Society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Among his recent publications are Harold J. Recinos, ed. 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They bring us as close to grieving as we can bear before pulling us toward the knowledge that we must bear it, and must reach out persistently with a blind hand of faith, or hang on by a finger-grip to the immutable belief that words matter, that words can hurt, but they can also save our lives. --Yvette D. Benavides, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas The poems in After Eden capture the utopic contradictions that haunt and form how we dream in the United States. . . . With each poem, we encounter the pain and beauty of ordinary people who carve a life out of the imbalance of social existence. Ultimately, After Eden exhorts us, through the elegance and ardor of its poetic vision, to imagine a more just and loving world. --Richard Perez, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York After Eden is a collection of poems--the term seems somehow inadequate, artificial, and constricting--springing from lo cotidiano ('the day-to-day') of Latino\/a life in these United States. As such they serve as a cry of despair, stubbornly clinging to hope while embodying the most challenging form of love: solidarity. . . . I know a prophetic voice when I hear it. Let those with ears to hear listen. --Ruben Rosario Rodriguez, Saint Louis University Harold J. Recinos is professor of Church and Society at the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. Among his recent publications are Good News from the Barrio: Prophetic Witness for the Church (2006); Voices on the Corner (2015); Crossing Bridges (2016); and Breathing Space (2017). 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They bring us as close to grieving as we can bear before pulling us toward the knowledge that we must bear it, and must reach out persistently with a blind hand of faith, or hang on by a finger-grip to the immutable belief that words matter, that words can hurt, but they can also save our lives. --Yvette D. Benavides, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas The poems in After Eden capture the utopic contradictions that haunt and form how we dream in the United States. . . . With each poem, we encounter the pain and beauty of ordinary people who carve a life out of the imbalance of social existence. 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