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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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