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Book Synopsis"Ultimately, the lyrics in Hoodwinked read as odes to mortality. They marvel nonstop, unsentimentally, and with necessary ambivalence, at the world as given and the human inability to consistently rise to the exhausting challenge of making every second count. These poems constantly acknowledge that 'all flesh is grass.' They make us hear the wondrous, terrifying hum of impending obliteration, while at the same time never growing immune to beauty, never ceasing to be curious about what the grass itself makes of our common temporal conundrum." Amy Gerstler, from the introduction Inherent untrustworthinessof received opinion, the trompe l’oeil deceptions of nature, and the workings of our own unfaithful mindsis given its proper menace in David Hernandez’ Hoodwinked. In poems that range from the backyard to Iraq and back again, Hernandez disturbs the surface of contemporary life to reveal barely submerged worlds that, impossible to fathom, make fools of us all.
Trade Review"Under all the surfaces, is where these zany, ever-present poems roam. You have to pay close attention, reading, to catch up to the riddle and its revelation here. Hernandez is not fooling around, but this book brilliantly fools with our expectations and inability to focus on what's in front of us." --Carol Muske-Dukes, The Huffington Post
"Under all the surfaces, is where these zany, ever-present poems roam. You have to pay close attention, reading, to catch up to the riddle and its revelation here. Hernandez is not fooling around, but this book brilliantly fools with our expectations and inability to focus on what's in front of us." --Carol Muske-Dukes, The Huffington Post
Table of Contents1 Questions About Butterflies Fooling the Buffalo Trompe L’Oeil Moose in Snow D.F.W. Remember It Wrong Proof Why Maggots Flipbook American Water Mosul 2 Everything I’m About to Tell You Actually Happened Self-Portrait with Baby Possum I Made a Door At the Post Office Supermarkets This Large Panoramic Obituary Kindergarten Snowman Hornet’s Nest Closer 3 Man with Swatter Victory Song Challenging Mud (1955) Doomed (1975) Retirement Home Melee at the Salad Bar The Body You’re Suited-up In Phantom Limb Married And Hangover Housefly 4 The Pompous Man Mosh Against Erosion Head Case Velvet On Aggression Fear and Logic Road Trip The Big Nothing, or the Gap Between David Letterman’s Teeth
