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"Ultimately, the lyrics in Hoodwinked read as odes to mortality. They marvel nonstop, unsentimentally, and with necessary ambivalence, at the world as given and the human inability to consistently rise to the exhausting challenge of making every second count. These poems constantly acknowledge that 'all flesh is grass.' They make us hear the wondrous, terrifying hum of impending obliteration, while at the same time never growing immune to beauty, never ceasing to be curious about what the grass itself makes of our common temporal conundrum."
—Amy Gerstler, from the introduction
Inherent untrustworthiness—of received opinion, the trompe l'oeil deceptions of nature, and the workings of our own unfaithful minds—is given its proper menace in David Hernandez' Hoodwinked. In poems that range from the backyard to Iraq and back again, Hernandez disturbs the surface of contemporary life to reveal barely submerged worlds that, impossible to fathom, make fools of us all.
Contents
1
Questions About Butterflies
Fooling the Buffalo
Trompe L'Oeil
Moose in Snow
D.F.W.
Remember It Wrong
Proof
Why Maggots
Flipbook
American Water
Mosul
2
Everything I'm About to Tell You Actually Happened
Self-Portrait with Baby Possum
I Made a Door
At the Post Office
Supermarkets This Large
Panoramic
Obituary
Kindergarten
Snowman
Hornet's Nest
Closer
3
Man with Swatter
Victory Song
Challenging Mud (1955)
Doomed (1975)
Retirement Home Melee at the Salad Bar
The Body You're Suited-up In
Phantom Limb
Married And
Hangover
Housefly
4
The Pompous Man
Mosh
Against Erosion
Head Case
Velvet
On Aggression
Fear and Logic
Road Trip
The Big Nothing, or the Gap Between David Letterman's Teeth
