Sundress Publications announces the pre-release of The Parachutist. In this collection, author Jose Hernandez Diaz weaves a breathtaking tapestry of poetry that delves into the heart of the Chicano experience. Diaz’s poetic voice shines brightly, capturing the tension between inherited struggles and present-day privilege, translating the untold stories of his ancestors into vivid, surreal verses. This collection is a tribute to those who, due to circumstance, could not tell their stories, as if the speaker is furiously documenting the poetry they never had the chance to create.
Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine, writes, “Jose Hernandez Diaz is fast becoming one of our premier prose poets. His prose poems radiate a lucidity that’s familiar and otherworldly. His bone-clean language spirals into the absurd, into the mythic, into narratives rich with surprises and swerves. His imagination is tremendous, electric. I’m also struck by the gratitude in these poems. Diaz centers and listens to his ancestors, which allows him to carry them with him as he embarks on a literary career that’s already garnering readers, accolades.”
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Jose Hernandez Diaz, a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow, writes prose that traverses the cultural intersections of Chicano heritage and surrealism. He is the author of Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024) and The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review and Yale Review.
