{"product_id":"fetish-9780803264915","title":"Fetish","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well versed in the uprooted life of an immigrant, Menes's profound references not only convey local color but also bring the essence of his family history eye level with the reader in these striking verses.\"—\u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The poems in the collection are powerful, yet engaging narratives crafted by a gifted poet and story-teller.\"—Mary Alexander, \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Writer \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With flowing language, vivid imagery, and brilliant word choices, Menes can tell a heart-wrenching story in four stanzas.\"—Mary Christy, \u003ci\u003eBig Muddy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Drenched with the flavor and savor of the Caribbean, Orlando Ricardo Menes’s\u003ci\u003e Fetish\u003c\/i\u003e is a treat for the mouth and the ear, as well as for the mind. Striking characters abound: Zvi Mendel, ‘retired tobacconist to Havana’s Ashkenazim’; an unnamed female survivor of a prison called ‘Den of the Lioness.’ Anger at injustice often surfaces. The beauty of the region springs up everywhere. But it is sound that powers these poems, a piquant blend of English spiced with Español. . . . These delectable poems beg to be tasted. To be spoken. To be sung.”—Charles Harper Webb, author of \u003ci\u003eShadow Ball\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Open Orlando Ricardo Menes’s exquisite poetry collection Fetish, and you’ll quickly see a folk sculpture of Eleggua, though I should warn you. In the Cuban Santería religion, this deity has 101 manifestations, or roads, he may take you down. In this way, he is not unlike Menes’s poems, which may lead us, in a matter of pages, from suburban Indiana to Miami to Panamá to Kichwa-speaking villages in the Andes. Although the destinies of these roads offer vastly different insights, if we survive them, there is a sensibility that unifies the whole: Menes does not easily identify with grand ideologies and personal arrogance. Rather, he keeps his eye on those who go largely unrecorded by history: a poor great-uncle alienated from his own family by politics, a daughter with severe ADHD, a papá assiduously mending used furniture, a political prisoner who survives cruelty by caring for the earth’s smallest creatures—lame rat, pregnant mouse, chirping cricket.”—Maurice Kilwein Guevara, author of \u003ci\u003ePoema and Postmortem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Orlando Ricardo Menes’s \u003ci\u003eFetish\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare work of the American Creole Sublime, conjuring visions of his Cuban homeland as a sacred geography of vanquished mestizo dreams, his Florida boyhood a world of transmuting tropical wonder. At once mythic, syncretic, and autobiographical, transported on strains of epiphanic geomancy, Menes’s work subtly presents a new vision of América that Martí, Stevens and Walcott would all embrace. You want to whisper in a fever, ‘Adelante!’”—John Phillip Santos, University Distinguished Scholar in Mestizo Cultural Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1. Ars Poetica\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCourtyard of Clotheslines, Angel Hill     000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGolgotha    000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFetish      000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMambo 000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaracas of Rain   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAubade: The Charcoal Makers   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZvi Mendel  000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Maximum Leader Addresses His Island Nation  000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpiderman in Havana     000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDen of the Lioness      000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLibros      000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRefrigeradores    000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElegy for Great-Uncle Julio, Cane Cutter  000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTía Gladys, Backroom Seamstress     000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZafra 000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArs Poetica 000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2. El Cristo de Piedra\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWindfall Antiques 000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHorses      000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLalo, Peddler     000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTelevision, a Patient Teacher 000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSal    000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVillage of the Water People   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEl Cristo de Piedra     000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBirthing Adrian   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTantrums    000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBraille     000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePyx   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdderall    000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSt. Joseph River  000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAshes 000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMole  000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3. The Gringo Called Ñakak\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSoroche     000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Gringo Called Ñakak 000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAltiplano   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePanegyric for the Condor      000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Devil's Miner 000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Boy from Chimbote   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParable     000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur Lord of Miracles    000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTop   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToro  000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreakfast with Capitalists    000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuancito's Wake   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments  000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes for Poems   000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary    000\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405267935575,"sku":"9780803264915","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803264915.jpg?v=1730489357","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fetish-9780803264915","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}