SOME OF THE LIGHT
RELEASED APRIL 2023
25 years of writing from one of our most gifted Latinx poets, taking the reader from his early exploration of machismo to new work on life as a single father, immigrant detention, and spiritual inquiry. Some of the Light: New & Selected gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez’s award-winning poetry, offering a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author. At its core, Some of the Light contains collected poems of love, told through the lens of a single father raising two children alone in the borderlands. They are at times intimate and confessional, telescoping from personal relationships to spiritual inquiry, from human rights to the environment, while between the cracks of the poems are poetic contemplations, chronicling the passing days of the pandemic. Some of the Light was published March 2023, and is a part of Beacon Press’s Raised Voices Poetry Series, established in 2021 to raise historically excluded voices and perspectives, and to celebrate poetry’s ability to access truths in ways no other form can. You can read the People Magazine interview, and a poem from the book featured in The Atlantic.
Juan Felipe Herrera 21st United States Poet Laureate, on Tim Z. Hernandez
Tim Z. Hernandez 