Library of forgotten saints
Mexican American poet Jose Hernandez Diaz explores the mystery and magic of existing within two cultures. Review: Bad Mexican, Bad American, by Gavin O'Toole
Bad Mexican, Bad American, Poems, Jose Hernandez Diaz, 2024, Acre Books
Sure, we can try to improve, but we have nothing to prove, Jose Hernandez Diaz feels like telling his father.
But he doesn’t—maybe out of respect, maybe because his father will not listen, maybe because the old man is just exhausted from working all day. So he turns up the volume on t…