Saúl Hernández
A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a Lambda Literary Award Winner, a Writers’ League of Texas Discovery Winner, Longlisted for the PEN OPEN BOOK Award, & a Texas Institute of Letters' Honor-Winner
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One is never sure who the monsters are in these poems, only that the narrator desperately doesn’t want to be one. In his brilliant debut collection, Hernández explores grief, loss, identity, lineage, and belonging with grace, insight, and compassion.
These pages are infused with comfort, with desire, with heartache. Never absent is love, family. Hernández—hyperaware of American society’s dismissal or hatred of people who look like him—writes with a refreshing confidence, a sure knowledge of who he is and where he comes from. Transcending any particular experience, this volume will continue to resonate with multiple readings.
Praise for At Night My Body Waits (Winner of the 2021 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize judged by Victoria Chang):
Saúl Hernández's stunning book, At Night My Body Waits, contains multitudes. Hernández explores numerous themes such as grief, immigration, borders, the queer body, sexual abuse, politics, and much more. Put simply, the writing in this book is gorgeous: "Dreams run in my family. In mine I/nail water to the wall, it runs down//my hands and splashes at my feet..." or "I take sleeping pills sometimes,//I become heavy enough to not dream." These poems rely on language to create tension, to express the difficult road of self-acceptance and freedom. This is a coming of age story, of heartbreak, of struggle, of identity, of border, and ultimately of empowerment.
— Victoria Chang, Contest Judge and author of The Trees Witness Everything and Obit
2025
New York
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