Thinking of Saints

Thinking of Saints is the first book of poems by Kevin Estrada. The collection chronicles the young writer's experiences and observations during a two-year span. His poetry is as promising, if not more, than most young poets today. Estrada's voice resonates the youthful innocence of Arthur Rimbaud, breath of Charles Olson, and simple language of William Carlos Williams and Jack Kerouac, whom he invokes in the first poem of the book, Ode to St. Jack. The highlight of Thinking of Saints is the Bookstore Blues, a series of poems dedicated to Estrada's year off from college.