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Informationen zum Autor David Hernandez published his first collection of poems, A House Waiting for Music , in 2003. His poems have appeared in FIELD, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, The Southern Review , and TriQuarterly . His drawings have appeared in Other Voices , Gargoyle , and Indiana Review . Hernandez lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife, writer Lisa Glatt. Klappentext "Always Danger" offers a lyrical and highly imaginative exploration into the hazards that surround people's lives--whether it's violence! war! mental illness! car accidents! or the fury of Mother Nature. In his second collection of poems! David Hernandez embraces the element of surprise: a soldier takes refuge inside a hollowed-out horse! a man bullies a mountain! and a giant pink donut sponsors age-old questions about beliefs. Hernandez typically eschews the politics that often surround the inner circle of contemporary literature! but in this volume he quietly sings a few bars with a political tone: one poem shadows the conflict in Iraq! another reflects our own nation's economic and cultural divide. "Always Danger "parallels Hernandez's joy of writing: unmapped! spontaneous! and imbued with nuanced revelation. Zusammenfassung Offers a lyrical and imaginative exploration into the hazards that surround people's lives - whether it's violence! war! mental illness! car accidents! or the fury of Mother Nature. In this collection of poems! the author embraces the element of surprise: a soldier takes refuge inside a hollowed-out horse! a man bullies a mountain! and more.