Orlando Ricardo Menes
Orlando Ricardo Menes is the author of three other books of poetry, including Fetish: Poems. His work has appeared in the Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Ploughshares, West Branch, Callaloo, and elsewhere.
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Heresies
Poems
University of New Mexico Press
The poems incorporate history, legend, and magical realism to create a cross-cultural baroque feeling.
The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds
Poems
University of New Mexico Press
The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures.