"The publication of Jose Hernandez Diaz's first full collection of poems is cause for celebration. He is a gifted poet always ready to delight with outstanding song and poetry. Bad Mexican, Bad American is the best book I've read in a long time from a young poet who holds no punches. Hernandez Diaz's inspiration comes from daily life, from family, from a rich cultural tradition that make every poem in this collection shine with great empathy and humanity. I love how much the poet respects the sacrifices his parents made. I hear the plight of a young artist moving the reader with powerful and well-crafted poems. I am proud to call Hernandez Diaz one of the best poets of his generation, and certainly a poet who walks daily with Lorca's Duende and we are given the gift of his very best in this collection."– "Virgil Suárez, author of "Amerikan Chernobyl" and "The Painted Bunting's Last Molt""