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Fetish : poems / Orlando Ricardo Menes.

Van Pelt Library PS3563.E52 F48 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Menes, Orlando Ricardo.
Series:
Prairie schooner book prize in poetry
Prairie Schooner book prize in poetry
Standardized Title:
Poems. Selections
Language:
English
Physical Description:
xii, 76 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Summary:
From sensual pleasures and perils, moments and memories of darkness and light, the poems in Orlando Ricardo Menes's new collection sew together stories of dislocation and loss, of survival and hope, 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. Book jacket.
Contents:
Part 1 Ars Poetica
Courtyard of Clotheslines, Angel Hill 3
Golgotha 5
Fetish 7
Mambo 9
Maracas of Rain 10
Aubade: The Charcoal Makers 11
Zvi Mendel 13
The Maximum Leader Addresses His Island Nation 15
Spiderman in Havana 16
Den of the Lioness 17
Libros 19
Refrigeradores 20
Elegy for Great-Uncle Julio, Cane Cutter 21
Tía Gladys, Backroom Seamstress 23
Zafra 24
Ars Poetica 26
Part 2 El Cristo de Piedra
Windfall Antiques 29
Horses 30
Lalo, Peddler 32
Television, a Patient Teacher 34
Sal 35
Village of the Water People 38
El Cristo de Piedra 41
Birthing Adrian 43
Tantrums 44
Braille 45
Pyx 47
Adderall 48
St. Joseph River 49
Ashes 50
Mole 51
Part 3 The Gringo Called M̃akak
Soroche 55
The Gringo Called M̃akak 57
Altiplano 58
Panegyric for the Condor 60
The Devil's Miner 61
The Boy from Chimbote 62
Parable 63
Our Lord of Miracles 64
Top 66
Toro 67
Breakfast with Capitalists 68
Juancito's Wake 69.
ISBN:
9780803264915
0803264917
OCLC:
830682036

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