Fetish Poems |
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| Author:
| Menes, Orlando Ricardo |
| Series title: | The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-6492-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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.