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Fetish: Poems: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Autor Orlando Ricardo Menes
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2013
From sensual pleasures and perils, moments and memories of darkness and light, the poems in Orlando Ricardo Menes’s collection sew together stories of dislocation and loss, of survival and hope, and of a world patched together by a family over five generations of diaspora. This is Menes’s tapestry of the Americas. From Miami to Cuba, Panama to Bolivia and Peru, through the textures, sounds, colors, shapes, and scents of exile and emigration, we find refuge at last in a sense of wholeness and belonging residing in this intensely felt, finely crafted poetry.   

 
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803264915
ISBN-10: 0803264917
Pagini: 96
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

Orlando Ricardo Menes is an associate professor of English and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His poetry collections include, among others, Furia: Poems and Rumba atop the Stones.

Cuprins

<CT>Contents</CT>
 
Acknowledgments   000
 
Part 1. Ars Poetica
 
Courtyard of Clotheslines, Angel Hill     000
Golgotha    000
Fetish      000
Mambo 000
Maracas of Rain   000
Aubade: The Charcoal Makers   000
Zvi Mendel  000
The Maximum Leader Addresses His Island Nation  000
Spiderman in Havana     000
Den of the Lioness      000
Libros      000
Refrigeradores    000
Elegy for Great-Uncle Julio, Cane Cutter  000
Tía Gladys, Backroom Seamstress     000
Zafra 000
Ars Poetica 000
 
Part 2. El Cristo de Piedra
 
Windfall Antiques 000
Horses      000
Lalo, Peddler     000
Television, a Patient Teacher 000
Sal    000
Village of the Water People   000
El Cristo de Piedra     000
Birthing Adrian   000
Tantrums    000
Braille     000
Pyx   000
Adderall    000
St. Joseph River  000
Ashes 000
Mole  000
 
Part 3. The Gringo Called Ñakak
 
Soroche     000
The Gringo Called Ñakak 000
Altiplano   000
Panegyric for the Condor      000
The Devil's Miner 000
The Boy from Chimbote   000
Parable     000
Our Lord of Miracles    000
Top   000
Toro  000
Breakfast with Capitalists    000
Juancito's Wake   000
 
Source Acknowledgments  000
Notes for Poems   000
Glossary    000

Recenzii

"Well versed in the uprooted life of an immigrant, Menes's profound references not only convey local color but also bring the essence of his family history eye level with the reader in these striking verses."—World Literature Today

"The poems in the collection are powerful, yet engaging narratives crafted by a gifted poet and story-teller."—Mary Alexander, Caribbean Writer

"With flowing language, vivid imagery, and brilliant word choices, Menes can tell a heart-wrenching story in four stanzas."—Mary Christy, Big Muddy

“Drenched with the flavor and savor of the Caribbean, Orlando Ricardo Menes’s Fetish is a treat for the mouth and the ear, as well as for the mind. Striking characters abound: Zvi Mendel, ‘retired tobacconist to Havana’s Ashkenazim’; an unnamed female survivor of a prison called ‘Den of the Lioness.’ Anger at injustice often surfaces. The beauty of the region springs up everywhere. But it is sound that powers these poems, a piquant blend of English spiced with Español. . . . These delectable poems beg to be tasted. To be spoken. To be sung.”—Charles Harper Webb, author of Shadow Ball 

“Open Orlando Ricardo Menes’s exquisite poetry collection Fetish, and you’ll quickly see a folk sculpture of Eleggua, though I should warn you. In the Cuban Santería religion, this deity has 101 manifestations, or roads, he may take you down. In this way, he is not unlike Menes’s poems, which may lead us, in a matter of pages, from suburban Indiana to Miami to Panamá to Kichwa-speaking villages in the Andes. Although the destinies of these roads offer vastly different insights, if we survive them, there is a sensibility that unifies the whole: Menes does not easily identify with grand ideologies and personal arrogance. Rather, he keeps his eye on those who go largely unrecorded by history: a poor great-uncle alienated from his own family by politics, a daughter with severe ADHD, a papá assiduously mending used furniture, a political prisoner who survives cruelty by caring for the earth’s smallest creatures—lame rat, pregnant mouse, chirping cricket.”—Maurice Kilwein Guevara, author of Poema and Postmortem


“Orlando Ricardo Menes’s Fetish is a rare work of the American Creole Sublime, conjuring visions of his Cuban homeland as a sacred geography of vanquished mestizo dreams, his Florida boyhood a world of transmuting tropical wonder. At once mythic, syncretic, and autobiographical, transported on strains of epiphanic geomancy, Menes’s work subtly presents a new vision of América that Martí, Stevens and Walcott would all embrace. You want to whisper in a fever, ‘Adelante!’”—John Phillip Santos, University Distinguished Scholar in Mestizo Cultural Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio