"In The Days You Bring , we walk the 'long walk' with Recinos through the barrio's streets, weeping unabashedly for its 'crucified people' and left to contemplate the 'horrifying obscenity of forgetfulness.' Yet so, too, do we revel in its subtle raptures and improbable blossoms. Against the 'thick silence' of an indifferent world and the 'pious white lies' of history, The Days You Bring asks us, Can you hear the barrio's song? Its canto and hymns? Its 'unanswered prayers'?" --Éric Morales-Franceschini, University of Georgia "This is a magnificent work of art. These poems urgently reprimand white Americans for their belief in a God who sanctions a racist capitalism that can't afford to care about the barrio, the jail, and the border. Recinos is 'carrying this cold / country in my brown body' with ecstatic grief shot through with grace restored to its name." --Katie Ford, University of California, Riverside "I have often thought that American presidents should add a poet or two to their cabinets. It seems to me that along with financiers, generals, lawyers, physicians, and scientists, a bard should be part of this assembly of wisdom for a nation. Harold Recinos is an operatic poet for our time.

In his new collection, he tells Americans exactly what they need to hear right now--full blast--about the life we share so they can change it." --Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos, author of Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity "The impassioned poems of protest in The Days You Bring contribute to poetry's social justice tradition, offering us closely observed and tender chronicles of the innocent who suffer. Recinos's outpourings of torrential rage and sorrow are leavened by finely grained moments of soft grace." --Joy Castro, University of Nebraska-Lincoln "In this collection of truth-telling poetry, Harold Recinos weeps with love for the dehumanized and marginalized of society. He laments over injustice, yet he does more than this. He dreams of a more luminous future and hopes amid human hurts until he can say in the end, literally, 'Amen!' If you desire to be lit by the fire of a just God, read this book. These poems are from the tongue of a prophet." --Luke A.

Powery, Duke University.