After winning the 2002 Tupelo -Chapbook award presented by judge Ray Gonzalez, a full-length version of David Hernandez's imaginative, heartfelt work became inevitable. The author's eyes rove the landscape of his experience and focus on the details of shadows, his words giving a fresh accent to the pathos and unavoidable humor of loss. A new voice that's loud, lucid and impossible to ignore. "A House Waiting for Music has enough verbal Hip-hop to get the cops called. Listen up!"-Kim Addonizio