Hoodwinked

$3000 marketing and publicity budget Advertising in Poets & Writers, Writer's Chronicle, Rain Taxi Review of Books Promotion on the author's website (http://www.davidahernandez.com/) Publicity and promotion through the author's contacts Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to contacts on Sarabande database as well as contacts Hernandez provides 200 postcards mailed to Hernandez's contacts Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserve as well as review copy mailing to online journals and blogs

Hernandez' third collection is blunt and undeceived. His odes to mortality are laced with wit and sadness rising like helium."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.