Crab Orchard Review Vol. 12, No. 2, our

the Crab Orchard Series
in Poetry
Series Editor, Jon Tribble
“Always Danger blends a sense of menace,
of ever-present harm, with almost painterly
devotion to the images central to these
poems….Hernandez’s achievement is the double
witnessing of violence and beauty, the one
unavoidable and the other, by the end, earned.”
—Bob Hicok, award-winning author of Animal
Soul, The Legend of Light, and Insomnia Diary
Copublished with Crab Orchard Review
63 pages
ISBN 0-8093-2618-3, $14.95 paper
2005 Open Competition Award
Always
Danger
Poems by
David Hernandez
“Fierce and swift and crisp, David
Hernandez’s poems drill their way into
the real and always find something alive
and surprising there. There’s plenty of
cleverness here, but what is special about
these poems is an unusual quality of
determination. Hernandez’s imagination
goes at the world in attack-mode—not
to show off, but to discover its human
depths.”—Tony Hoagland, author of
What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems
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