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Books by Orlando Ricardo Menes
  | | Heresies Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by Orlando Ricardo Menes, Hilda Raz Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-3521-0, ISBN: 0-8263-3521-7 "Heresies is an invocation of Latin American and Caribbean culture, history, and spirituality. Through free verse and poetic forms, the collection is visually charged and sonically rich. The poems incorporate history, legend, and magical realism to create a cross-cultural baroque feeling. Heresies is witty, probing, transgressive, and carnivalesque." |
 | | Rumba Atop the Stones(First Edition) by Orlando Ricardo Menes Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2001 by Peepal Tree Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-900715-49-2, ISBN: 1-900715-49-X "In verse rich in imagery and metaphor, Cuban-American poet Orlando Menes constructs a cosmic vision of the Caribbean that weaves African, European and indigenous elements into a vibrant synthesis. The voices of communist, Christian and Orisha devotee blend in baroque celebration of the Caribbean's unique heritage." |
 | | Fetish Poems (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry) by Orlando Ricardo Menes Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-6491-5, ISBN: 0-8032-6491-7 "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 emigra ..." |
 | | Furia(1st Edition) Poems by Orlando Ricardo Menes Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2005 by Milkweed Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-420-8, ISBN: 1-57131-420-2 "This eye-opening and exotic new poetry collection tells a story in a way that few books of poetry do. Filled with colors, textures, tastes, and beautifully crafted language, these sensual poems recall the author's Peruvian/Cuban ancestry and his childhood in Peru and Florida, taking the reader on a journey full of delights — and dangers. There are maids who serve monkeys for dinner, elementary-school thugs wielding knives, and frogs fal ..." |
 | | The Open Light(1st Edition) Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 (Paperback) by Orlando Ricardo Menes Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Notre Dame Press ISBN-13: 978-0-268-03521-1, ISBN: 0-268-03521-0 ""The principal pleasures of this collection--and rightly so--lie in the richness and diversity of the poems it contains." |
 | | Memoria Poems by Professor Orlando Ricardo Menes Paperback, 90 Pages, Published 2019 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6941-4, ISBN: 0-8071-6941-2 |
 | | The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by Menes, Orlando Ricardo Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2022 by University Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-6399-2, ISBN: 0-8263-6399-7 "Menes engages with the Catholic sacraments, saints' lives, and the artistic heritage of this universal faith as well as Cuban art through the use of a variety of poetic styles across the collection." |
 | | The Open Light - Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008 by Menes, Orlando Ricardo Hardcover, 292 Pages, Published 2022 by University Of Notre Dame Press ISBN-13: 978-0-268-20704-5, ISBN: 0-268-20704-6 "The plethora of voices included in this collection and the poems themselves provide a rich and vibrant legacy of poetry at Notre Dame." |
 | | My Heart Flooded with Water Selected Poems by Alfonsina Storni, Orlando Ricardo Menes Paperback, 197 Pages, Published 2009 by Latin Amer Literary Review Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-891270-51-2, ISBN: 1-891270-51-6 "Carefully selected from seven collections-and including a handful of poems never collected-this poetry book honours the prestigious feminist poet Alfonsina Storni by presenting some of her best work in an unparalleled English translation. This bilingual edition maintains the original poems in Spanish alongside the new translations and represents over 20 years of work by one of the most significant contributors to Latin American poetry i ..." |
 | | Heresies Poems by Orlando Ricardo Menes 80 Pages, Published 2015 by Unm Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-3522-7, ISBN: 0-8263-3522-5 "Let dawn rouse the Dead Sea, & I will splash the pungent swells, roam the knurls & jags, bend down into a crook of rock to wound my knees, scrape my hands, suck the saltiest of waters, & feel blessed for gasping, retching. To doubt is the holy ..." |
 | | Borderlands with angels by Orlando Ricardo Menes Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 1994 by Bacchae Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9637849-5-7, ISBN: 0-9637849-5-1 |
 | | Renaming Ecstasy(1st Edition) Latino Writings on the Sacred by Orlando Ricardo Menes Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2003 by Bilingual Pr (Bilrp) ISBN-13: 978-1-931010-15-3, ISBN: 1-931010-15-3 "Renaming Ecstasy brings together poets who have explored experiences of the sacred in ways that are unique to Latin American culture and highlights the richness and complexity of Latino spiritual life. Because of Latin America’s mestizaje of cultures, traditional Catholicism exists alongside other practices of African or indigenous origin. In their invocation of the divine, poets of Caribbean origin draw inspiration from the myths and p ..." |
 | | Memoria Poems by Orlando Ricardo Menes 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-7063-2, ISBN: 0-8071-7063-1 "Our mothers horrified to have borne sons so twisted, so perverse, / Their mop sticks primed to beat us into Marlboro Men.” Menes balances these unflinching criticisms with celebratory lines for España as a mother country: “We . . . ..." |
 | | Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser. Fetish by Orlando Ricardo Menes Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-70972-0, ISBN: 1-299-70972-9 |
 | | Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry Ser. Fetish : Poems by Orlando Ricardo Menes 88 Pages, Published 2013 by U Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-6492-2, ISBN: 0-8032-6492-5 "Poems Orlando Ricardo Menes. The Boy from Chirhhote In this coastal citybeset by fish meal Factories, scams, pickpockets who cop a feel, I met two Quebecers at the youth hostel, Playing cards before lunch, Pierre 8: Margot Who hitched on trucks, mules, a steamboat With bananas, goats. Street kids in tow, We jostled to a ... Before we could ward Him off, a curly teen plopped on a beanbag, shook hands, gleam ofgold teeth, a silk US. ..." |
 | | Fetish Poems by Orlando Ricardo Menes 82 Pages, Published 2022 by U Of Nebraska Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4962-0918-4, ISBN: 1-4962-0918-4 "This is Menes's tapestry of the Americas." |
 | | Memoria Poems by Orlando Ricardo Menes 91 Pages, Published 2019 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-6942-1, ISBN: 0-8071-6942-0 "Our mothers horrified to have borne sons so twisted, so perverse, / Their mop sticks primed to beat us into Marlboro Men.” Menes balances these unflinching criticisms with celebratory lines for España as a mother country: “We . . . ..." |
 | | The Latin American Ecocultural Reader(Abridged) (Paperback) by Gisela Heffes, Jennifer French Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Northwestern University Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-4263-3, ISBN: 0-8101-4263-5 |
 | | A Flame Called Indiana An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing by Doug Paul Case, Kaveh Akbar, Dason Anderson, Noah Baldino, Bryce Berkowitz Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2023 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-06680-0, ISBN: 0-253-06680-8 |
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