Ray Gonzalez

Bloomsbury Review

“Tim Z. Hernandez is one of the finest and most exciting poets from the new generation of Latino writers!”

Juan Felipe Herrera

Half of the World in Light, U.S. Poet Laureate

“…a masterpiece without precedent!”

Victor Martinez

Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, National Book Award Winner

“Tim sidles up close, whispers in our ears the soft beauties of a moistened spirit, and he won’t give us the maintenance lie…there’s the danger of shun and shutter, there’s the risk of touching a burn.”

-Rigoberto Gonzalez

El Paso Times Book Review

“It’s too reductionistic to call Tim Hernandez a performance poet…though his voice and rhythms surely benefit from the energy behind a microphone, the complexity of his ideas merit the slower pace study made possible through the written pages of Skin Tax.”