Critical Commentary

“Tim Z. Hernandez is one of the finest and most exciting poets from
the younger generation of latino writers!” -Ray Gonzalez, Bloomsbury Review

“I like Tim's boldness, his willingness to be raw and trust the content of the poem to make it real and legitimate, his poems sizzle and spark with excitement, targeting with a relentless passion his desire to express what he is trying to convey.” Jimmy Santiago Baca (A Place to Stand, American Book Award Winner)

“Even though Hernandez is a word master and performance genius, it is not his language, lyrics nor liquid action on stage that moves us; it is his soul naked and trembling…” Juan Felipe Herrera (Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler)

“It’s too reductionistic to call Tim Hernandez a performance poet…though his voice and rhythms surely benefit from the energy behind a microphone, the complexity of his ideas merit the slower pace study made possible through the written pages of Skin Tax.” Rigoberto Gonzalez (El Paso Times Book Review)

"Tim sidles up close, whispers in our ears the soft beauties of a moistened spirit, and he won’t give us the maintenance lie. Namby-pamby poetry his is not, there’s the danger of shun and shutter, there’s the risk of touching a burn.” Victor Martinez (Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, National Book Award Winner)

“Tim Hernandez' language is alive. It leaps from the page. It struts, it storms, it seduces!” Linda Watanabe McFerrin (The Hand of Buddha).