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Tim Z Hernandez

About Me


Hernandez is one of the finest and most exciting voices from the new generation of latino writers!
-Bloomsbury Review, Ray Gonzalez
Tim sidles up close, whispers in our ears the soft beauties of a moistened spirit, and he won’t give us the maintenance lie...there’s the danger of shun and shutter, there’s the risk of touching a burn.
-Victor Martinez, National Book Award Winner for "Parrot in the Oven"
Hernandez is a poet of obvious and quickly realized skills...his images are brilliant, sharp, and concise, his language spare yet rich. Poetry of the here and now, BROWN LOTUS, is the kind of task that should have been undertaken long ago!
-Amiri Baraka, poet & playwright
Hernandez's poems are fierce, sexy, achingly alive, they beg to be read out loud.
-Curve Magazine
Hernandez is a writer on the brink of international reknown..."find the God within you" we hear in his words and in his silences...it's only in the hands of time that the nation will listen for Hernandez as a soothing and imperative guide.
-Annie Lanzillotto, Bronx performance artist & writer
Skin Tax is poetry not for delicate sensibilities, unafraid, it dares to stand out and speak of subjects commonly eschewed by other poets.
-Midwest Book Review
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UPCOMING NOVEL TARGETS CENTRAL VALLEY YOUTH...

Breathing, In Dustis a forthcoming novel written about life in the central valley at the turn of the millenium. This isn't your everyday cotton candy fiction of a California that only exists in popula...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:37:00 GMT

excerpt from "Breathing, In Dust" ......coming soon.....

How To Catch A TrainIt starts in the old man's liquor cabinet. Pour half the bottle of his expensive Tequila into an empty container. Water down what's left and get out before he catches you in the ac...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:37:00 GMT

"What Im On" by Luis H. Valadez... coming soon!!!

WHAT I'M ON (Wat Ahm On) poems by Luis H. Valadez University of Arizona Press To be released March 2009-------------------------------------------------------- --------------------I can't tell you how ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Drive-bys...

House of Bottles Blues in a house made of bottles Bougainvilleas are what the mother loves Crimson is the music of Sultana's Bloodiest night Ochre smells of lost wages Light from the inside Ap...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:01:00 GMT

Purchase "Skin Tax"

Click on this link to purchase your copy of Skin Tax today!
Posted by on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:53:00 GMT

LISTEN TO TIM Z. HERNANDEZ, interview & reading

For anyone interested, here are two great recordings of my work. One is a recent interview by fellow writer and good friend, Jason Mc Donald. We sat over a bowl of fideo at my hous...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:34:00 GMT

"Skin Tax" recieves 2006 American Book Award

I got an email from the wonderful editor/ magma-force at Heyday Books that is Patricia Wakida, saying "I have good news". What good news could she possibly have I asked myself, my book ...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:39:00 GMT

Zen Joaquin Valley

Drove the distance from Visalia to Dinuba today. Went to see my grandfather there, and it felt great to be home again. Home; the obscure highway through shanty towns and plush fields after fields ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:57:00 GMT