Jack Collum Exchanges of Earth and Sky

“In Culture of Flow, Tim Z. Hernandez seeks to know/ show what Nature’ really means, and the Proof is in the detritus.’ This book is rich in detritus, rich in variable space, rich in flow, like language, like the globe. Hernandez digs for the ideas, ligs up the words, and immediately digs the opposite, and lets them dance. His sound and rhythm (rhythm of sound, rhythm of unsound) surpleases.”

John C. Doffelmyer Proclaiming Space

“Culture of Flow cuts through and exposes centuries of impacts upon the land and its people while chasing the dynamics of water in a wild fluvial process of its own.
With both power and unpredictability, his poetic line is like the San Joaquin River that, in the end, will have the last word.”

Victor Hernández Cruz

“Hernandez puts us in the flow of history, the poems read or spill into us like a chant or a drum beat that opens into older ceremonies, cultures and peoples flow into each other, the ancient pulse under the current of the industrial and modern age breathing fire, he brings the global barrios into one setting, the connections of the world are alive within him.”